She served as a science team member for NASA's Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission to Asteroid Bennu, and JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Dante Lauretta sat in the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Dante Lauretta sat in the backseat of a helicopter hovering high above a remote patch of Utah desert ...

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 ...