TOKYO – Japan’s space agency has lost contact with a wayward probe that botched an attempted rehearsal landing in a mission to collect surface samples from an asteroid and return to Earth, an official ...

Hayabusa attempted its first soft-landing on Itokawa for the purpose of touch down and sample collection on November 20-21, 2005. Below is the data information with the related advance report on its ...

The Society Celebrates Names of Members Etched on Target Marker That Guided Landing The Planetary Society sent congratulations to the Hayabusa spacecraft team at the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) for ...

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has lowered two small rovers onto an asteroid in an epic mission to study the distant space rock. Preparations have been underway for the landing since the Japan ...

A new image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows a mysterious dark blotch (next to the probe's shadow) where Hayabusa 2 touched down. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Japan’s space agency has released stunning new photos and video of a distant asteroid’s rocky surface that were captured by two small rovers. On Friday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) ...