
Japan's Hayabusa 2 bombed an asteroid and took pictures of the crater
25 April 2019
New images captured by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 confirm that the spacecraft successfully blew a hole in the asteroid Ryugu with explosives on 5 April

25 April 2019
New images captured by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 confirm that the spacecraft successfully blew a hole in the asteroid Ryugu with explosives on 5 April

27 September 2018
Japanese landers on the asteroid Ryugu have sent back more stunning images and video of the alien landscape

14 July 2017
Asteroids could have started life as sludgy balls of mud instead of tough rocks, which may explain how rocky planets came to be