Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

Researchers studied tiny asteroid fragments from Ryugu, revealing that it originated in the outer solar system and evolved ...

Japan launched the Hayabusa2 spacecraft on a mission to fetch a sample from an asteroid. The asteroid is named 162173 Ryugu, but it's also known as 1999 JU3. Hayabusa2 lifted off from the Tanegashima ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

日本「隼鸟2号」（Hayabusa 2）探索任务带回地球的「龙宫」小行星（162173 Ryugu）样本，被发现送到地球后就充满了地球生命体。研究人员指出，这表明地球微生物惊人的殖民能力，甚至连外星物质也被征服。

The sample is part of a 0.2-ounce (5.4 grams) chunk of rock that Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft scraped from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu and brought back to our planet in 2020. After the ...

Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in ...