How Tiny Fragments Unlocked the Hidden 4-Billion-Year History of Asteroid Ryugu
Researchers studied tiny asteroid fragments from Ryugu, revealing that it originated in the outer solar system and evolved ...
Ryugu asteroid sample rapidly colonized by terrestrial life despite strict contamination control
Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...
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Scientists Discovered Hayabusa 2 Asteroid Sample Was Teeming With Microbes, But Where Did They Come From?
Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...
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OTD In Space - December 3: Japanese Spacecraft Launches To An Asteroid
Japan launched the Hayabusa2 spacecraft on a mission to fetch a sample from an asteroid. The asteroid is named 162173 Ryugu, but it's also known as 1999 JU3. Hayabusa2 lifted off from the Tanegashima ...
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Footage Of Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Touchdown On Asteroid Ryugu
See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...
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Samples of 'alien' asteroid Ryugu are crawling with life — from Earth
Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...
Japan Researchers Find Salt Crystals on Ryugu Asteroid
The salt crystals, consisting of rock salt, sodium carbonate, and sodium sulfate, are crucial for understanding the evolution ...
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Signs of Life in Asteroid Sample Turn Out to Be Something Embarrassing
Despite their best efforts, the team discovered "rods and filaments of organic matter, which are interpreted as filamentous microorganisms, on a space-returned sample from 162173 Ryugu recovered by ...