A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

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

Credit: Kochi/JAXA New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became habitable. These findings emphasize the importance of ...

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Life showed up really early on Earth – it needed complex carbon molecules to do so. A new discovery hints that these molecules can survive the harsh conditions when stars are born.

Ryugu samples reveal phosphorus-rich grains crucial for early Earth Phosphorus-rich grains may explain early life chemistry on Earth Ryugu asteroid's grains offer insight into Solar System’s formation ...