Chamber A in the sample container was opened at 11:00 on December 15, and the asteroid Ryugu sample, which is thought to have been collected and stored at the time of the first touchdown (February 22, 2019), was confirmed. On December 14, a sample of grains of black sand thought to be ...
Chamber A in the sample container was opened at 11:00 on December 15, and the asteroid Ryugu sample, which is thought to have been collected and stored at the time of the first touchdown ...
Japan has done it again.
Gathered by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, the material from asteroid Ryugu will deepen scientists’ knowledge of early solar system history
A collection chamber that could contain more than 2 pounds of samples gathered from an asteroid in deep space last week has been sealed inside of a return capsule on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...
Samples could yield clues as to how water and complex organic molecules reached Earth
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe zoomed past Earth on December 5th and dropped off a capsule containing bits of an asteroid, finishing a six-year round trip. But the mission is far from over: While ...
Black sandy dust found in a capsule brought to Earth by a Japanese space probe is from the distant asteroid Ryugu, scientists confirmed after opening it on Monday.
Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has successfully landed on the asteroid Ryugu for a second time, firing a projectile into the surface in the process and hopefully kicking up material into a ...
The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu returns with pristine space rock.
The team's findings suggest that impacts early in Earth's history by similar asteroids could have delivered as much as half of our planet's ocean water. A postdoctoral scholar in ASU's ...
“We collected the treasure box,” a Japanese space scientist announced after a capsule holding samples from asteroid Ryugu safely landed on Earth.
The Hayabusa2 mission cements Japan’s role in exploring the solar system, but finding its asteroid cargo presents one last challenge.
Japan's Hayabusa2 mission collected a sample from asteroid Ryugu and will return it to Earth in December 2020.