Japanese probe makes historic landing on asteroid

A pair of small robotic explorers released by Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe made history Saturday by landing on an asteroid 300 million kilometers from Earth.The country's space agency released images taken by the Minerva-II explorers on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, where they are on a mission to gain clues to the formation of the solar system and the origin of life.The first-ever landing by a roving explorer on an asteroid means redemption for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which failed on a similar mission in 2005."I'm proud we now have the means to travel across the surfac…READ FULL ARTICLE