In 2020, it successfully returned samples from asteroid Ryugu, located over 100 million ... Meteoritics & Planetary Science (2024). DOI: 10.1111/maps.14288 This story originally appeared on ...

Samples taken from the space-returned piece of asteroid Ryugu were collected and prepared under strict anti-contamination controls. Inside the cleanest of clean rooms, a tiny particle was ...

Scientists hypothesize that Ryugu is a rubble-pile asteroid. They think that it formed ... In this case, the researchers used the process to map out the various elements and functional groups ...

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Japan has landed two hopping robots onto asteroid Ryugu as part of the Hayabusa2 mission. It's Japan's second mission to an asteroid, where it plans to return some samples of Ryugu to Earth by the ...

The asteroid Ryugu used to pass far closer to the sun, even closer than Mercury, an analysis of images shot by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe reveals. The probe snapped the images of the asteroid ...

Soil samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe contain organic substances, a discovery that will likely provide clues to the origin of life on Earth, according to ...

It's believed to contain sand samples from the remote asteroid Ryugu, and will soon be in the hands of researchers looking to shed light on the beginnings of our solar system. Stargazers in ...

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