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[ad_1] A Japanese space probe on Friday launched a pair of exploration probes to an egg-shaped asteroid to collect mineral samples likely to shed light on the origin of the solar system. …

[ad_1] At the end of August, the Japanese space agency JAXA announced that it would try to deploy a pair of very special rovers, the asteroid Ryugu, on the surface. JAXA's Probe …

[ad_1] The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 captured this image of the asteroid Ryugu (and its own shadow) on the night of September 20, 2018, when the probe was about 440 feet (135 meters) …

[ad_1] This morning, a Japanese space probe deposited two tiny rovers on an asteroid nearly 200 million kilometers from the Earth. The vehicle is Hayabusa2, and the rovers were the first of …

[ad_1] The rovers will use the low gravity environment to jump on the surface of the asteroid A Japanese space probe on Friday released two explorers exploring an egg-shaped asteroid to collect …

[ad_1] The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 took this picture around midnight, Eastern Daylight Time, on September 21, 2018, as he deployed the two tiny MINERVA-II1 larvae to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. …

[ad_1] A Japanese spacecraft is just a few hours from a historic attempt to land two tiny jumping robots on the big asteroid Ryugu, and you can see almost real-time photos of …

[ad_1] Author's right of the image Jaxa Legend Rovers 1A and 1B (left and center), alongside Minerva II-2 (right) that will be released later The Japanese space agency is preparing to deploy …

[ad_1] The inhabitants of planets like us naturally look first at other moons and planets for colonization. Yet, asteroids have enough resources to build spaces for billions, with the same living space …

[ad_1] Two asteroids have already passed the Earth and the third will fly late in the evening, just before midnight around 23:44 (Paris time). The first space rock, called the 2018 RM7 …