The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa mission exemplifies this effort by returning over a thousand tiny particles from asteroid Itokawa. Asteroid Itokawa, classified as an S ...

especially in a nominally dry asteroid like Itokawa. Samples from another asteroid, Ryugu, had nearly no water at all. Yet, two cosmochemists at the Arizona State University (ASU) followed their ...

so the researchers based their models on a similar two-lobed asteroid, Itokawa, which has been studied in greater detail. The ...

The Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency has done two asteroid sample-return missions, to the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu. Special delivery! Biggest-ever haul of asteroid dust and rock returns to ...

Japan’s Hayabusa mission in 2010 delivered to Earth a few micrograms of material from an asteroid called Itokawa. A second mission, dubbed Hayabusa2, delivered a small sample from an asteroid ...

Alaskans are pretty familiar with a variety of resources that are regularly mined in the state, but perhaps not too familiar with the idea of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) mining.

After tackling a suite of technical challenges, Hayabusa returned to Earth with the tiniest hopes of having captured samples from Itokawa, an asteroid 115 million kilometres away from Earth.