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 ...

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 ...

By Alimat Aliyeva Japanese scientists from Kyoto University have discovered evidence of salt minerals on the asteroid R ...

Hayabusa2 was developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, and launched in December 2014. Its destination was Ryugu, an asteroid orbiting the sun between the earth and Mars some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

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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 ...

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 ...