The Japanese space agency has set dates for its historic plan to explore the surface of an asteroid with robots. The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after a ...
Microscope image of one of the small fragments of asteroid 162173 Ryugu studied by scientists at the Advanced Photon Source. This fragment is roughly 400 microns in diameter, or about the width of ...
Despite their best efforts, the team discovered "rods and filaments of organic matter, which are interpreted as filamentous microorganisms, on a space-returned sample from 162173 Ryugu recovered ...