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

NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The samples were collected by ...

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

Researchers have found more than 20 different amino acids, the building blocks of life, in soil samples Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe brought back from the asteroid Ryugu, according to sources.

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 ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

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 ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

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 ...