Japan Launches Asteroid-chasing Probe to Bring Space Rock Samples to Earth

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 00:30 in Astronomy & Space

Japan's second asteroid-sampling spacecraft, the Hayabusa 2, has launched on a 16-year voyage to collect pieces of a space rock and return them to Earth. See how the mission will work here.

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