Japan Says Some Hayabusa Material Definitely From Asteroid

TOKYO—Japan’s Hayabusa sample-return probe collected and returned material from the asteroid Itokawa in its troubled seven-year mission, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reports. Analysis of some 1,500 particles of material found in the sample-return canister reveals that “most of them...

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