In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...

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

The Hayabusa2 mission brought dust from the asteroid Ryugu back to Earth in 2020. These few grams of samples, shared among ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Asteroid Ryugu, formed billions of years ago, was shaped by processes in the early solar system, including freeze-thaw cycles that fractured its rocks and allowed water to alter its composition.

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

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 ...

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.