Author: Ian O’Neill, Discovery News

  • Success! Hayabusa Captured Asteroid Dust

    In July, Japanese scientists announced that they had found something inside Hayabusa’s 40cm-wide sample return capsule, but it was far from certain as to what that “something” was. Was it dusty contamination from reentry? Or was it precious asteroid dust, the very thing the sample return mission set out to capture? Now we have an…