Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...
This Is Where ‘Shooting Stars’ Really Come From — Scientists
New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...
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How Bits Of Asteroid Ryugu Were Shipped To NASA?
NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The samples were collected by ...
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Asteroid dust unveils the mysterious magnetic origins of our solar system
Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...
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Solar System’s Ancient Magnetic Field Found Thanks To Tiny Grain From Asteroid Ryugu
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, ...
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New Clues to the Formation of Outer Planets from Ryugu's Ancient Grains
What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...
Ancient asteroid grains reveal hidden magnetic past of our solar system
MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They ...
MIT scientists study particles from distant asteroid for clues to the outer solar system’s origin
We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
Asteroid grains shed light on the outer solar system's origins
Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...
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🚀 👽 Key components of DNA and RNA discovered in space, on Ryugu
Could asteroid grains be at the origin of the first building blocks of life on Earth? This is what recent discoveries from space dust suggest. These fragments, brought back by a Japanese probe, ...
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MIT Scientists Uncover Carbon-Storing Molecules in Distant Interstellar Cloud
A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a type of ...
NASA Devised a Wild Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity. It Almost Failed
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.