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

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

The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020, have been vital to improving the understanding of primitive asteroids and the formation of the solar ...

A surprising discovery from a tiny grain of asteroid Ryugu has rocked scientists' understanding of how our Solar System evolved. Researchers found djerfisherite—a mineral typically born in scorching, ...

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

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

A rock sample that a Japanese space probe collected from an asteroid suggests a possible source of compounds that enabled the development of life on Earth.

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).

Samples taken from the space-returned piece of asteroid Ryugu were collected and prepared under strict anti-contamination controls. Inside the cleanest of clean rooms, a tiny particle was collected… ...

Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life ...

Asteroid Ryugu Was Changed By Water And Holds Organic Molecules Older Than The Sun The latest analysis of the samples collected by Hayabusa-2 reveals much more about the space rock.

Asteroid Ryugu samples found to contain uracil, a key component of RNA The discovery adds weight to the theory that basic organic molecules may have arrived on Earth from outer space.