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'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides
A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...
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Asteroids Bennu, Ryugu, and Polana: A Hidden Connection That Could Rewrite Solar System History
A groundbreaking study recently published in the Planetary Science Journalhas raised the possibility that asteroids Bennu, Ryugu, and Polana may all be fragments of a common parent body. The paper, ...
A close-up image of asteroid Ryugu. A new analysis of samples from the space rock hints that flowing water once coursed through its interior. | Credit: ISAS/JAXA, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ...
This time last year, scientists got their hands on some very rare space rocks — specifically, 5.4 grams of material from the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu, which was returned to Earth via the ...
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