Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

The samples were collected by Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which launched in December 2014 and successfully rendezvoused ...

chunk of rock that Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft scraped from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu and brought back to our planet in 2020. After the spacecraft landed back on Earth, researchers opened ...

The sample from the asteroid Ryugu was overrun with Earth-based life forms after they were brought to the planet, scientists ...

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

A Ryugu asteroid sample has been found contaminated by terrestrial microbes, raising questions about planetary protection.

In 2020, it successfully returned samples from asteroid Ryugu, located over 100 million ... Matthew Genge from Imperial College London reveals that Earth’s microorganisms likely colonized ...

One such object is asteroid (162173) Ryugu, a 1 km-wide near-Earth asteroid believed to have originated in the asteroid belt. However, it has since moved to cross Earth's orbit, located 300 ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...