Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, deploying small rovers and a lander, before gathering a sample and returning it ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances hopes to address as an ...

The return of these extraterrestrial samples to Earth in 2020 opened the door to new hypotheses. These grains taken from Ryugu, an asteroid located beyond Jupiter, contain crucial elements for the ...

Thanks to asteroid Ryugu, now we know. The asteroid is a peculiar one – maybe even an extinct comet. It was visited by the Japanese mission Hayabusa-2, which collected samples from the surface ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the ...

These families were produced by three recent collisions that occurred in the main asteroid belt 5.8 ... it appears that the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, recently sampled by the Hayabusa2 (Japanese ...

When an asteroid is larger than about 150 meters, or about 490 feet, across and skims past Earth within this area deemed close range, scientists consider it a "potentially hazardous object." ...

"The Trojan asteroid was in the process of gravitationally 'bouncing' between the giant planets when it got snagged by Saturn." Saturn has finally joined its fellow solar system giant planets as ...

The first near-Earth asteroid which is the smallest of the group at around 100 feet across, came within 3.4 million miles of us. The latter, a 170-foot-wide boulder, reached within 2.9 million miles.