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 ...

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

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 ...

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 is ...

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 ...