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Help name the asteroid that Japan's Hayabusa2 probe will fly by in 2026
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJapan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft will zoom past a small near-Earth asteroid in 2026 as part of its...
Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down
Euronews via Yahoo News· 4 months agoJapan’s space agency said on Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's...
Japan's SLIM lunar lander stuck the landing—upside down
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEh. Close enough. Here’s the good news: Japan’s space agency confirmed its historic Smart Lander for...
Japan testing spacecraft technology to deflect asteroid on collision course with Earth
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJapan’s Jaxaspace agency is reportedly planning tests to repurpose its Hayabusa2 spacecraft to prove...
We Found the Building Blocks of Life Hiding in Asteroid Dust
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Daily Beast / Courtesy of JAXABack in 2010, Japan’s space agency JAXA completed one of the...
'Building blocks of life' recovered from asteroid Ryugu are older than the solar system itself
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGrains from the asteroid Ryugu alloted to the Hayabusa2 Initial Analysis Soluble Organic Matter Team...
Japan's space programs and moon missions
Reuters via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBy Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon when it tries a precision landing on Friday....
Key building block for life discovered on distant asteroid Ryugu — and it could explain how life on...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn animation of asteroid Ryugu made with images from JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission. For the first time,...
Japan makes contact with its 'Moon Sniper' craft after historic landing on the Moon
Euronews via Yahoo News· 4 months agoJapan became the fifth country in history to reach the Moon when its spacecraft landed on the lunar...
Ryugu asteroid samples contain clues to origin of life, Japan scientists say
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDust from an asteroid collected by a Japanese space probe contains clues to the origin of life,...