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

A recent discovery made by scientists working with a sample of rock from outer space highlights one of the huge challenges ...

Could asteroids serve as pathways for life across the Solar System? It's a question that has intrigued researchers and ...

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

Discovery published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science highlights challenge of contamination in space exploration ...

The salt crystals, consisting of rock salt, sodium carbonate, and sodium sulfate, are crucial for understanding the evolution ...

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 ...

Asteroid Ryugu was altered by water and contains organic molecules older than the Sun. The building blocks of RNA and Vitamin ...

We've known for a while that complex chemistry occurs in space. Organic molecules have been detected in cold molecular clouds ...

Japanese researchers have identified sodium carbonates, or salt crystals, in samples from the Ryugu asteroid brought back to ...

The analysis of a sample from the asteroid Ryugu sparked excitement among scientists when signs of life were detected.

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 delivered samples of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth back in 2020, and since then, teams of ...