See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 returned to Earth in December 2020 bearing soil samples collected from a nearby asteroid, 162173 Ryugu.Those samples were divided between six scientific teams ...

Asteroid 162173 Ryugu is a diamond-shaped space rock visited by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2, which took a sample from the asteroid's surface to return to Earth.This material will help ...

The nearly-kilometer-long 162173 Ryugu asteroid had a sample brought back by JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission, and the findings can reveal new insights on the birth of the solar system.

Samples taken from the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu continue to provide scientists with important insights. The discovery of the nucleobase uracil, a part of RNA, in the samples, hints at the ...

Asteroid 162173 Ryugu (Image credit: ISAS/JAXA, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons). The pitch-dark asteroid bits reflect only about 2% to 3% of the light that hits them, the team found. And the ...

Ryugu asteroid sample rapidly colonized by terrestrial life despite strict contamination control. ... (1 × 0.8 mm) particle ...

The successor to this mission, called Hayabusa2, was completed near the end of 2020, bringing back material from Asteroid 162173 "Ryugu," along with a collection of images and data gathered ...

In 2020 the space mission Hayabusa2 returned samples and images from the space rock Asteroid 162173 or Ryugu, classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) by NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

How these precursor ingredients spurred life remains a mystery, but asteroids may contain clues. A previous sample from 162173 Ryugu, a diamond-shaped asteroid, contained myriad organic compounds, ...