Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...
Bad news, folks: those samples from the asteroid Ryugu appear to have been contaminated by life here on Earth.
The Japanese Hayabusa-2 spacecraft is thought to have detonated an explosive charge on the asteroid it is exploring. The idea was to create an artificial crater on the object known as Ryugu.
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Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe departed for Earth on Nov. 13 after completing its mission to explore and collect samples from the asteroid Ryugu. It had been on a mission to investigate the ...
Rovers 1A and 1B (left and centre), alongside Minerva II-2 (right) which will be released at a later date Two robotic explorers are descending to the surface of an asteroid. Japan's Hayabusa-2 ...
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The asteroid Ryugu used to pass far closer to the sun, even closer than Mercury, an analysis of images shot by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe reveals. The probe snapped the images of the asteroid ...
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