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 ...

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

No amino acids have been found in samples Hayabusa brought back from the asteroid Itokawa and those from the moon.

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 ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.