Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...
Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...
Could asteroids serve as pathways for life across the Solar System? It's a question that has intrigued researchers and ...
The sample from the asteroid Ryugu was overrun with Earth-based life forms after they were brought to the planet, scientists ...
NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The samples were collected by ...
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 ...
Discovery published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science highlights challenge of contamination in space exploration ...
Asteroid Ryugu was altered by water and contains organic molecules older than the Sun. The building blocks of RNA and Vitamin ...
Japanese researchers have identified sodium carbonates, or salt crystals, in samples from the Ryugu asteroid brought back to ...
The salt crystals, consisting of rock salt, sodium carbonate, and sodium sulfate, are crucial for understanding the evolution ...