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

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

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites ...

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

Research on Ryugu samples indicates a faint magnetic field within 3 million years of solar system formation, impacting ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

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 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.

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

The team was inspired by the discovery of pyrene in the Ryugu asteroid sample (which was collected by the Japanese Space Agency JAXA and returned by the spacecraft Hayabusa2 in 2020), and decided to ...

Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt, still harbors many secrets ... Observations also include evidence of frozen water beneath the surface, revealed by spectrographic and gravimetric ...