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Japan has completed its 3-billion-mile mission to collect dust from an asteroid. Photos show the prize falling into Australia like a fireball.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

A Japanese spacecraft is about to send a 'treasure box' of asteroid dust plummeting to Earth. Watch the sample return live.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Here are the first pictures from the rovers Japan just landed on an asteroid 280 million km away

Peter Farquhar

Japan hopes to land a spacecraft on an asteroid -- and has successfully begun orbiting it

Peter Farquhar