Hayabusa claims first dust from asteroid : News blogSuccess! The Hayabusa space explorer has picked up dust from the Itokawa asteroid, from which it returned in June after a seven-year mission. The grains are the first materials ever returned to Earth from an asteroid. Researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on 16 November that analysis of the mineral compositions of around 1,500 micrometre-sized grains from Hayabusa’
