The samples were originally collected by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2. The spacecraft spent more than a year investigating Ryugu before returning to Earth. As it approached our planet ...
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.
Artwork: Hayabusa-2 made its way back to Earth after visiting the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu The first large sample of rock and soil from an asteroid is making its way back to Earth. A capsule ...
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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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 ...