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An incredible new animation from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows the Hayabusa2 spacecraft completing its second touchdown operation, on July 11.

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 made a carefully choreographed second touchdown on an asteroid called Ryugu last night (July 10) — and the photos are incredible.

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft will attempt to retrieve a sample from the surface of asteroid Ryugu today (July 10). This will be the spacecraft's second touchdown operation at the asteroid, which it has

A Japanese spacecraft successfully blasted a crater into a space rock called Ryugu, the mission confirmed today (April 25), releasing an animation showing how the impact changed the asteroid's surface.

On April 4, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft tossed a bomb at a space rock, then ducked for cover to wait for the debris to settle — but before it did, it watched the impactor soar toward the asteroid, called

Asteroids have pummeled Earth for billions of years, and now Earth has finally struck back. Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft slammed a copper cannonball into the 3,000-foot-wide (900 meters) asteroid Ryugu

A Japanese spacecraft studying the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu beamed home new data revealing that the space rock has less water than scientists expected.

Japan's space agency completed a complicated touchdown maneuver at a distant space rock last month, and it has now released an incredible video from the spacecraft's point of view.

A Japanese asteroid probe commemorated its successful sample grab with a stunning post-landing photo.

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is getting ready to touch down on asteroid Ryugu, where it will scoop a sample of the asteroid's rocky surface that will eventually be sent back to Earth.

Imagem 3D anaglífica do Ryugu. (Fonte) A imagem acima mostra o asteroide Ryugu em 3D no sistema anaglífico, aquele que necessita de óculos com lentes vermelha e azul para produzir o efeito estereoscópio.

Hayabusa2 em desenhodo artista Akihiro Ikeshita. (Fonte: Jaxa) A sonda Hayabusa2 da Jaxa - Agência Espacial Japonesa foi lançada ao espaço em 3 de dezembro de 2014 com a missão de estudar o asteroide 162173

As Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft approaches the asteroid Ryugu, the probe has grabbed its best photos yet of the rocky body — and they'll only get better.