In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth ...

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

The Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft visited the asteroid Ryugu, which had flowing water for over a billion years. This unexpected discovery, made when the spacecraft collected and returned samples, adds ...

The Associated Press reports that NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Perseverance rover has uncovered ...

Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu was previously covered in flowing water, say researchers examining samples returned by JAXA's ...

Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...

Prize: NASA could offer a prize—say $3 billion to the first company and $1 billion to a second company—for delivering ...

A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...

Recent research by Japanese scientists indicates that upon analyzing samples returned from asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 mission five years ago, they discovered some unusual phenomena suggesting ...