particle collected by the JAXA Hayabusa 2 mission from asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Transported to Earth in a hermetically sealed chamber, the sample was opened in nitrogen in a class 10,000 clean room ...

One such object is asteroid (162173) Ryugu, a 1 km-wide near-Earth asteroid believed to have originated in the asteroid belt. However, it has since moved to cross Earth's orbit, located 300 ...

The 900m-wide space rock known formally as 162173 Ryugu belongs to a particularly primitive type of asteroid. It is thought to be a relic left over from the early days of our Solar System ...

Snapping a series of pictures that revealed the asteroid’s shape. The asteroid of choice was 162173 Ryugu, or Ryugu for short. In Japanese it refers to a magical, underwater Dragon Palace.

Despite their best efforts, the team discovered "rods and filaments of organic matter, which are interpreted as filamentous microorganisms, on a space-returned sample from 162173 Ryugu recovered ...

The Japanese space agency has set dates for its historic plan to explore the surface of an asteroid with robots. The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after a ...

Soil samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe contain organic substances, a discovery that will likely provide clues to the origin of life on Earth, according to ...

One such object is asteroid (162173) Ryugu, a 1 km-wide ... Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are less stable as catalysts than previously thought but remain highly active. COFs are promising ...

Snapping a series of pictures that revealed the asteroid's shape. The asteroid of choice was 162173 Ryugu, or Ryugu for short. In Japanese it refers to a magical, underwater Dragon Palace.