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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa2's capsule carrying the first extensive samples of an asteroid lit up as it enters the earth's atmosphere

Japan Retrieves Asteroid Samples in Hunt for Origins of Planets

Melanie Burton 06/12/2020

Japan's craft orbited above the asteroid for a few months to...

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa2's capsule carrying the first extensive samples of an asteroid lit up as it enters the earth's atmosphere

Japanese Space Probe Carrying Asteroid Pieces Lands in Australia

Melanie Burton 06/12/2020

Asteroids are believed to have formed at the dawn...

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OSIRIS-REx Mission: What Do We Expect To Find on Asteroid Bennu?

Adam Mann, Knowable Magazine 20/10/2020

On October 20, a van-sized robot circling a distant...

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To Bennu and Back, Looking for Clues of Our Origins – and Maybe Of Our End

Partha Pratim Bera 11/04/2019

After travelling over 3.21 million km, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft...