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 ...

See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi U./Rikkyo U./Nagoya U./Chiba Inst. Tech./Meiji U./U. Aizu/AIST ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe has been in orbit around the space rock known as ...

Earlier this month, Japan’s space agency JAXA launched an explosive projectile at the space rock known as Ryugu from its Hayabusa2 asteroid probe. Japan wanted to blow a crater into the surface ...

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 ...

Genge’s team will study more asteroid samples from Ryugu and Bennu, aiming for contamination-free materials to better explore their pristine extraterrestrial properties. 'Bengaluru needs this ...

The asteroid Ryugu is made of carbon-rich rock. Japan targeted Ryugu for its sample return mission Hayabusa2 in 2020. As planetary scientist Paul K. Byrne from Washington University in St. Louis ...

International teams of researchers are examining the sample retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu and dropped to Earth in December 2020 in a capsule. On June 10, the first two articles about some of ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The Ryugu asteroid is thought to contain clues about the origins of life. [AFP] A Japanese ...