Professor Takashi Kubota, right, and Associate Professor Makoto Yoshikawa, both of JAXA, the Japanese space agency, pose for photo, after asteroid explorer Hayabusa2 has arrived at the asteroid of Ryugu, in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, Wednesday, June 27, 2018. The Japanese space explorer arrived at an asteroid Wednesday after a three and half a year journey and now begins its real work of trying to blow a crater to collect samples to eventually bring back to Earth. The words in center, read Hayabusa2 has arrived Ryugu. (Daisuke Suzuki/Kyodo News via AP)
Tokyo: A Japanese probe has reached an asteroid 300 million kilometres away to collect information about the birth of the solar system and the origin of life after a more than three-year voyage through deep space.
The Hayabusa2 probe settled into an observation position 20km above the Ryugu asteroid, officials from the Japan Space Exploration Agency (Jaxa) said yesterday.
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