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

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

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

Asteroid Ryugu is proving to be one of the most scientifically valuable time capsules in the solar system. A recent study of microscopic grains collected from Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft ...

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.

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Scientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by ...

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, ...

The second paper, published Aug. 22 in the journal Nature Geoscience, compared Bennu with primitive meteorites, as well as with asteroid Ryugu, from which samples were collected by the Japan Aerospace ...