Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping theories of how Earth gained its oceans. A billion-year-old impact may have melted ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A close-up image of asteroid Ryugu. A new analysis of samples from the space rock hints that ...

Today, the near-Earth asteroid known as Ryugu is bone dry. But new research suggests that the half-mile space rock may have once been flowing with liquid water — and crucially, at a period in the ...

(Nanowerk News) Fluids may have flowed within the parent body of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu more than one billion years after it formed, according to research published in Nature ("Late fluid flow ...

"This forces us to rethink the starting conditions for our planet’s water system." Liquid water flowed across the surface of the asteroid that birthed the near-Earth object (NEO) Ryugu much later than ...

Large quantities of water once flowed through the asteroid Ryugu, an indication that asteroids could have brought much more water to Earth than previously thought. The origin of Earth’s water is ...

Asteroid Ryugu is proving to be one of the most scientifically valuable time capsules in the solar system. A recent study of microscopic grains collected from Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft ...

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life. Asteroid Ryugu is proving to be one of the most scientifically valuable ...

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