These two rovers are just the first of four that Japan aims to land on Ryugu. The other two rovers are scheduled to land within the next year. In the process, Japan hopes to collect and return a ...

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 ...

In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group describes their study of a small sample of material ...

Hayabusa-2 reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after a three-and-a-half-year journey. While the European Space Agency had previously managed to land on an icy comet, this is the first ...

Later, it returned to land in the crater and collect the fresh ... the three and a half years it took the spacecraft to reach Ryugu, thanks to the asteroid now being much closer to Earth than ...

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 ...

The asteroid Ryugu used to pass far closer to the sun, even closer than Mercury, an analysis of images shot by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe reveals. The probe snapped the images of the asteroid ...

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