Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...

Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

The salt crystals, consisting of rock salt, sodium carbonate, and sodium sulfate, are crucial for understanding the evolution ...

The samples were collected by Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which launched in December 2014 and successfully rendezvoused with Ryugu in June 2018. Listen to Story Scientists have made a surprising ...

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

Imagine that, for billions of years, you're a grain of material unbothered on asteroid Ryugu. All of a sudden, a spacecraft flies down, shoots you with a pellet to kick you up, and collects you ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. (Main) An image of the asteroid Ryugu as seen by the Japanese mission Hayabusa2 (Top right) a ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

And this time on asteroid Ryugu, a space rock with an orbit that passes between Earth and Mars. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft collected the samples in February 2019, and delivered them to Earth in ...

Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in ...