The capsule's delivery by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft completes its six-year sample-return mission and ... Hayabusa2 left the asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million kilometers from Earth, a year ...

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a ...

A team of researchers at Kyoto University have found evidence of salt minerals in samples recovered from Ryugu during the initial phase of ... that sample grains returned from the asteroid might ...

So far, only government space agencies from the United States and Japan have brought minuscule ... vehicle and returned just 122 grams of an asteroid sample in September 2023 — which was double ...

A team of researchers has found evidence of salt minerals in samples recovered from Ryugu during the initial phase of ... team expected that sample grains returned from the asteroid might contain ...