Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...

Bad news, folks: those samples from the asteroid Ryugu appear to have been contaminated by life here on Earth.

It's the first significant sample of material to be delivered to Earth from a space rock and was grabbed last year by Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft. Researchers began opening the capsule on Monday ...

The Hayabusa-2 probe ejected the German-French Mascot "rover" on Wednesday for its 20-minute journey down to the space rock. Contact was confirmed in the early hours, Central European Summer Time.

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The asteroid Ryugu used to pass far closer to the sun, even closer than Mercury, an analysis of images shot by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe reveals. The probe snapped the images of the asteroid ...

There is, of course, the bonkers 1970s Comuta Car Hayabusa build. And very recently, we introduced you to MilkJug 2.0, which is a Hayabusa-swapped Smart ForTwo. Oh, and that last one is also ...

An all-out horsepower tussle and a no-prep drag event between a turbo Mustang and a turbo 'Busa. What could go wrong, right?

There are three engine control options ranging from 1 to 3 — 1 being the fullest throttle response to let open maximum Hayabusa hyperbike carnage. Mode 2 for a more tamed throttle and engine ...