Japan's space agency said Thursday its Hayabusa2 space probe has touched down on an asteroid 250 million kilometers from Earth, and believes that it has collected the first-ever asteroid subsurface samples.The debris collected this time by the probe, which last landed on the Ryugu asteroid in February to take surface samples, will help gain new insight into the origins of life and the evolution of the solar system, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency."We have obtained a piece of the solar system's history," said Hayabusa2's project manager Yuichi Tsuda at a press conference,…READ FULL ARTICLE
