Bad news, folks: those samples from the asteroid Ryugu appear to have been contaminated by life here on Earth.
Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has departed from a faraway asteroid and begun its year-long journey back to Earth. The spacecraft left its orbit around Ryugu on Wednesday with samples of the ...
Imagine that, for billions of years, you're a grain of material unbothered on asteroid Ryugu. All of a sudden, a spacecraft ...
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The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after a three-and-a-half-year journey to the spinning top-shaped space rock. Officials have picked days in September and ...
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 ...
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 ...
They learned this because a sample from Ryugu, retrieved by the Hayabusa 2 mission 186 million miles from Earth, sent to ...
There are three engine control options ranging from 1 to 3 — 1 being the fullest throttle response to let open maximum Hayabusa hyperbike carnage. Mode 2 for a more tamed throttle and engine ...