We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

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

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

Nov. 6, 2024 — Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the ... 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision ...

A hand in a glove holds an ampoule and a syringe. The injectable vitamins were found to contain glass particles. A hand in a glove holds an ampoule and a syringe. The injectable vitamins were ...

While Ryugu particles displayed a close compositional match to that of Earth's water, there were some slight differences, leading researchers to hypothesise that Earth may have also sourced its ...

This updated sample, combined with the new Ryugu particles, suggest that the outer solar system, beyond 7 AU, hosted a very weak magnetic field, that was nevertheless strong enough to pull matter ...

MIT scientists analyzed one of several particles (shown in black) from the asteroid Ryugu, and found evidence that a weak magnetic field likely existed in the outer solar system where the asteroid ...