But the bacteria on its surface almost certainly came from Earth. The sample is part of a 0.2-ounce (5.4 grams) chunk of rock ...

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

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

Previous analyses of meteorites found on Earth have revealed that some of these space rocks contain the five nucleobases essential for organic life. An animation of asteroid Ryugu made with images ...

"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...