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 ...

Just over a year after Japan's Hayabusa2 mission returned the first subsurface sample of an asteroid to Earth, scientists have determined that the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu is a pristine remnant from ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 mission returned uncontaminated primitive asteroid samples to Earth. A comprehensive analysis of 16 particles from the asteroid Ryugu revealed many ...

An overview of the processes that led to the formation and evolution of current day Ryugu. (Credit: Nakamura, E. et al., 2022, On the origin and evolution of the asteroid Ryugu: A comprehensive ...

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 ...

Japan's space agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission successfully touched down and collected samples of asteroid Ryugu on February 22. Japan’s space agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission successfully touched ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa analyzed samples harvested from an asteroid. Rock and mineral grains that are older than our solar system and have not been ...

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Just over a year after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission returned the first subsurface sample of an asteroid to Earth, scientists have determined that the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu is a pristine remnant from ...

Just over a year after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission returned the first subsurface sample of an asteroid to Earth, scientists have determined that the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu is a pristine remnant from ...