An asteroid is expected to make a “close pass” to Earth next month. In October, NASA confirmed that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 ...
Japan launched the Hayabusa2 spacecraft on a mission to fetch a sample from an asteroid. The asteroid is named 162173 Ryugu, ...
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 ...
See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...
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 ...
Scientists have discovered that a sample of the asteroid Ryugu was overrun with Earth-based life forms after being delivered to our planet. The research shows how successful terrestrial micro ...
The approximately 10-metre asteroid has never posed a threat to Earth; its exact trajectory was determined by astrophysicists Raúl and Carlos de la Fuente Marcos from the Universidad Complutense ...