
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft streaked across the sky like a saber of light through the clouds as…

This artist’s concept depicts the Hayabusa spacecraft (left) and its sample return capsule (right) entering the atmosphere over South Australia.

Scientists flying aboard NASA’s DC-8 airborne laboratory captured this image of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft June 13,…

Scientists flying aboard NASA’s DC-8 airborne laboratory captured this image of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft June 13,…

Yiannis Karavas and James Breitmeyer, students at the Dexter/Southfield Schools in Brookline, MA, are assisted by instructor and principal investigator…

Scientists flying aboard NASA’s DC-8 airborne laboratory captured this image of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft June 13,…

Project scientist Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA’s Ames Research Center and Christina Giannopapa of the Netherlands’ Eindhoven…

Michael Winter of NASA’s Ames Research Center, principal investigator for the SLIT spectrogratph, installs his instrument in a framework behind…

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft leaves a streak of light behind the clouds is as it re-enters Earth’s…

Hideyuki Tanno of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kakuda Space Center aligned the twin lenses of his hand-held digital imaging…