Only the Millennium Falcon could rival the journey this bird has travelled. A capsule from the spacecraft Hayabusa – Japanese for peregrine falcon – has landed in one piece in the Woomera test ...

Hayabusa, a Japanese spacecraft that brought back mineral samples from an asteroid, ... MUSES-C launched on May 9, 2003, and was renamed Hayabusa ("falcon") shortly after its launch.

Japan's space agency applied for a Guinness World Records listing after its Hayabusa space probe returned from its seven-year journey to an ancient asteroid, an official said Tuesday.

A Japanese spacecraft has kept its rendezvous with an asteroid, following several failed attempts to land on the rock hurtling through space. Launched three years ago, the Hayabusa craft has now ...

The Japanese mission Hayabusa (“Falcon”) has been nothing if not ambitious. Launched in 2004, it reached the bizarre asteroid Itokawa a little over a year later. It took phenomenal images and ...

Japanese for peregrine falcon, a bird known to capture its prey in a vertical dive, Hayabusa-2 gathered its samples by descending to the surface of the asteroid over the spring and summer of 2019.

Hayabusa -– it's a name that resonates with speed and agility in the world of sports bikes, a direct nod to the Peregrine Falcon, Japan's fastest bird.However, there's an interesting twist to ...