Japan spacecraft touches down on asteriod
A Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 has touched down on an asteroid in an attempt to collect a sample of rock from the surface.
The Hayabusa-2 probe tried to grab the sample from a pre-chosen site on the asteroid Ryugu on Thursday.
The spacecraft reached asteroid Ryugu in June 2018 after a three-and-a-half-year journey from earth.
It is expected to return to earth with the rocky material it has cached in 2020.