A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...

Hayabusa2 asteroid Ryugu samples reveal liquid water flowed through rock over one billion years after formation.

Recent research by Japanese scientists indicates that upon analyzing samples returned from asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 mission five years ago, they discovered some unusual phenomena suggesting ...

Samples retrieved from asteroid Ryugu indicate that it once had flowing water in far greater volumes than previously thought ...

Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu was previously covered in flowing water, say researchers examining samples returned by JAXA's ...

Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

What minerals within the grain samples from asteroid Ryugu that returned to Earth can teach scientists about this intriguing asteroid and the rest of the solar system? This is what a recent study ...

Fluids may have flowed within the parent body of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu more than one billion years after it formed.

See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, deploying small rovers and a lander, before gathering a sample and returning it to ...

A surprising discovery from a tiny grain of asteroid Ryugu has rocked scientists' understanding of how our Solar System evolved. Researchers found djerfisherite—a mineral typically born in scorching, ...