asteroid Ryugu

Tiny asteroids like Bennu or Ryugu are devoid of dust. For a long time, scientists have been wondering why. Now, it turns out that our Sun and the violent solar storms might have something to do with it.…

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu, scientists discovered something surprising about the asteroid's surface wasn't smooth like many were expecting. …

Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have been formed in space, scientists.Pristine material from the asteroid Ryugu…

Asteroid Ryugu is said to contain 10 types of amino acids which are considered to be the building blocks of proteins and life on Earth. Here is what researchers say. How life…

After studying the samples of the asteroid Ryugu, scientists now believe that the origin of life on Earth may have been brought by an asteroid The origin of life on Earth has…

What are asteroids made of? A sample returned to Earth reveals the Solar System's building blocks Just over 12 months ago, we were sitting at Woomera, in the Australian outback,…