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

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Reference: “Evidence from 162173 Ryugu for the influence of freeze-thaw on the hydration of asteroids” by Matthew J. Genge, Natasha V. Almeida, Matthias van Ginneken, Lewis Pinault, Penelope J.

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, deploying small rovers and a lander, before gathering a sample and returning it ...

In December 2020 the space probe Hayabusa 2 brought samples of asteroid Ryugu back to Earth. Since then, the few grams of material have been through quite a lot. After initial examinations in Japan, ...

Analysis of the magnesium isotopes in dissolved material from asteroid Ryugu reveals how the asteroid's constituent minerals crystallised from water in the primordial celestial body ~ Asteroid Ryugu ...

The findings were detailed in a paper, ‘Uracil in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu’, published on 21 March in the journal Nature Communications. In order to discover where life originated and ...