Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...
Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...
See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...
Asteroid Ryugu was altered by water and contains organic molecules older than the Sun. The building blocks of RNA and Vitamin ...
in light of the newly returned Ryugu and Bennu asteroid samples from JAXA's Hayabusa-2 and NASA's OSIRIS-REx missions." To ...
In December 2020, JAXA's Hayabusa 2 mission returned samples of the asteroid to Earth, giving scientists a first look at a potential relic of the early distal solar system. The researchers ...
When scientists discovered water and a chemical compound common in RNA on a rock from the asteroid Ryugu, astronomy fans and ...