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

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

Asteroid Ryugu was altered by water and contains organic molecules older than the Sun. The building blocks of RNA and Vitamin ...

Getting a mission to the point of officially being accepted for launch is an ordeal. However, even when they aren't selected ...

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When scientists discovered water and a chemical compound common in RNA on a rock from the asteroid Ryugu, astronomy fans and ...

The samples were collected by Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which launched in December 2014 and successfully rendezvoused with Ryugu in June 2018.

The engine for a flagship new small Japanese rocket has burst into flames during a combustion test, but there was no injury ...

The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases ...

On Tuesday, a second-stage engine designed for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's ( JAXA) new Epsilon S rocket exploded ...

Bad news, folks: those samples from the asteroid Ryugu appear to have been contaminated by life here on Earth.