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

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.

Asteroid Ryugu as seen by Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft ... This helps limit the location and temperature of the parent body when it formed. The research team says that the parent body formed ...

The discovery of HAMP grains suggests that the material in the Ryugu asteroid likely formed in the outer Solar System, far from its current location. This supports the idea that water-bearing ...

New isotopic analysis of asteroid Ryugu’s samples from Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission ... These are also known as Ivuna-type chondrites, named after the Tanzanian location where their best-known ...

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

NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The samples were collected by ...

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 ...

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