Japan's capsule carrying asteroid rocks lands after 6-yr long mission
Japan's capsule from the unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft, carrying the samples of dust from asteroid Ryugu, landed in Australia. The Japanese space agency JAXA found the capsule in a desert near Woomera and retrieved it. The spacecraft had launched in 2014 and took four years to reach the asteroid before gathering samples and heading back to Earth in November 2019.