Scientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe. The actual findings ...

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

The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

Researchers find a mineral called djerfisherite in a Ryugu grain, which supposedly forms in circumstances that the asteroid ...

A surprising discovery in a sample from the Ryugu asteroid is challenging what scientists thought they knew about primitive ...

A surprising discovery from a tiny grain of asteroid Ryugu has rocked scientists' understanding of how our Solar System ...

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

The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020, have been vital to improving ...

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...

Experts know from past experiments that djerfisherite can be created when potassium-rich fluids and iron-nickel sulfides ...

Ryugu broke off from a larger asteroid after Earth had formed. But, he said, its parent body was an ancient asteroid that broke up, and bits could have traveled to the inner solar system, with ...

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).