See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...

A simple dust grain brought back from asteroid Ryugu is shaking up certain certainties. A rare mineral, djerfisherite, was ...

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

A rock sample that a Japanese space probe collected from an asteroid suggests a possible source of compounds that enabled the development of life on Earth.

Information about the asteroid Ryugu, which was explored by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from 2018 to 2019.

These findings suggest that Ryugu was once part of a much larger asteroid that formed out of various materials some two million years after our Solar System (some 4.5 billion years ago).

Samples of the asteroid Ryugu contain bits of stardust that predate the birth of our solar system. Slivers of Ryugu material, snagged by the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft, appear to come from the ...

What minerals within the grain samples from asteroid Ryugu that returned to Earth can teach scientists about this intriguing ...

And while Ryugu is currently only about 1 kilometer in diameter as a result of collisions and reassembly throughout its history, it is very unlikely it was ever a large asteroid, the researchers said.

Asteroid Ryugu samples found to contain uracil, a key component of RNA The discovery adds weight to the theory that basic organic molecules may have arrived on Earth from outer space.

Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life ...