Hayabusa2 Results Hint Asteroid Ryugu Was Broken Off Larger Space Rock

The Japanese Space Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft swooped down and collected a first sample from the asteroid Ryugu on February 22. And now JAXA is ready to make an even more dramatic sample collection in April when it uses explosives to shoot an impactor at the space rock to create an artificial crater. Hayabusa2 won’t leave Ryugu until the end of 2019, and it's expected to make it home to Earth with the samples at the end of 2020. In the meantime, scientists are learning plenty fr

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