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Touchdown on asteroid: Japan probe lands successfully

Japan launches Hayabusa 2 spacecraft to collect samples from asteroid

Japanese asteroid probe sets off to seek origins of life

A Japanese space probe blasts off on a six-year round trip to an asteroid for samples that could help reveal the origins of life. Rough cut. (No reporter narration.)

NASA says spaceship successfully deflected asteroid in test to save Earth

NASA says it has succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, says NASA chief Bill Nelson in a press conference from Washington. SOUNDBITE

US Vice President Harris lands in Japan ahead of ex-PM Abe's funeral

US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at Yokota Air Base in Fussa, Tokyo prefecture Japan to attend the funeral of assassinated premier Shinzo Abe and reinforce US diplomatic links in the region. Harris will head a delegation including the US ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai at the funeral on Tuesday. IMAGES