Tiny Grains From Asteroid Bennu Reveal How Jupiter Shaped the Early Solar System
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descends toward asteroid Bennu during a 2020 rehearsal for sample collection. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona…
Asteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thought
Isotope measurements from asteroid Bennu closely match those of asteroid Ryugu and rare CI carbonaceous chondrites, suggesting all…
Parent body of asteroid Ryugu formed early in solar system history, study finds
A research team from Hokkaido University and other institutions said Friday that the parent celestial body of the…
Japanese space probe, size of a fridge, flies near asteroid in planet defence test
A Japanese space probe performed a fly-by of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday, in a test mission for…
DNA building blocks on asteroid Ryugu, bacteria that eat plastic waste, and more science news
Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off…
DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest
Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases —…
Asteroid ice discovery may change ideas about origin of water on Earth
The parent body of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu appears to have harbored water in the form of ice for…
Asteroid Fragment Reveals a Strange Mineral Never Seen on Earth
The asteroid Ryugu is an echo from the deep, distant past. Two tiny grains of the rock, delivered…