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

The examination of a sample brought from asteroid Ryugu in outer space turned exciting for scientists when they found it had ...

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

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

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

Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), astronomers have taken a deep look into a fascinating ...

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

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

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

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

in light of the newly returned Ryugu and Bennu asteroid samples from JAXA's Hayabusa-2 and NASA's OSIRIS-REx missions." To ...