A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

A groundbreaking study recently published in the Planetary Science Journalhas raised the possibility that asteroids Bennu, ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

The nearly-kilometer-long 162173 Ryugu asteroid had a sample brought back by JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission, and the findings can reveal new insights on the birth of the solar system.

This time last year, scientists got their hands on some very rare space rocks — specifically, 5.4 grams of material from the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu, which was returned to Earth via the ...

Asteroid 162173 Ryugu (Image credit: ISAS/JAXA, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) The pitch-dark asteroid bits reflect only about 2% to 3% of the light that hits them, the team found.

Brian May's video message on a stereo image of the Ryugu asteroid that JAXA's Hayabusa 2 probe reached, is shown at the JAXA Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science in Sagamihara, Kanagawa ...

Researchers have found more than 20 different amino acids, the building blocks of life, in soil samples Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe brought back from the asteroid Ryugu, according to sources.

Image of Ryugu taken by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft in 2018. Credit: JAXA/wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Just over a year ago, material from the Japanese Hayabusa 2 mission to Asteroid (162173) Ryugu arrived ...

162173 Ryugu is a small asteroid that sits between Earth and Mars. Earlier observations of the diamond-shaped rock suggested it was a C-type asteroid packed full of carbon.