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In this picture taken on July 10, 2019 a man walks past a screen displaying a computer-generated image of the Hayabusa2 probe, during a news broadcast at Akihabara district in Tokyo. - Japan's Hayabusa2 probe landed successfully on a distant asteroid for a final touchdown on July 11, 2019, hoping to collect samples that could shed light on the evolution of the solar system

Hayabusa 2 lands on distant asteroid and collects another sample

11 July 2019

Japan's spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has again successfully landed on a distant asteroid and completed its mission of collecting underground samples

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

18 June 2019

NASA has captured its closest and most detailed image yet of Bennu, a 78 billion-kilogram asteroid which approaches close to Earth every six years

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