Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

One particular space rock, asteroid Ryugu, has become a focal point for researchers eager to unlock its mysteries. Thanks to the efforts of Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2, we now have an ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

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 ...

Material from the asteroid Ryugu obtained by Japan’s asteroid probe Hayabusa2. Image source: JAXA And that is exactly why researchers from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa analyzed ...

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To avoid having this happen with materials acquired from asteroids in space, scientists from Kyushu University in Japan carefully ... than samples from asteroid Ryugu and most meteorites ...

The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission landed on the asteroid Ryugu in 2019 and returned samples back to Earth the next year. Credit: JAXA Hayabusa 2 Last September, the AAS raised the issue of deep-space ...

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar System came to be. Given that asteroids are leftover material from the ...

To avoid having this happen with materials acquired from asteroids in space, scientists from Kyushu University in Japan carefully analyzed their ... nitrogen and ammonia than samples from asteroid ...