Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to 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.
Researchers have found more than 20 different amino acids, the building blocks of life, in soil samples Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe brought back from the asteroid Ryugu, according to sources.
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 ...