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.

"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...

An engine hot fire test for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's new Epsilon S rocket ended prematurely when the engine ...

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

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

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

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 ...