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

Researchers at the Advanced Photon Source joined an international effort to study tiny fragments of a nearby asteroid. The ...

Snapping a series of pictures that revealed the asteroid’s shape. The asteroid of choice was 162173 Ryugu, or Ryugu for short. In Japanese it refers to a magical, underwater Dragon Palace.

Hayabusa-2 reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after a three-and-a-half-year journey. The 1km-wide space rock known formally as 162173 Ryugu belongs to a particularly primitive type of ...

which goes by the formal name of 162173 Ryugu. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) spacecraft will then survey the object for a year-and-a-half, during which it will aim to deploy ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, deploying small rovers and a lander, before gathering a sample and returning it ...

科技飞速发展的今天，长时间的太空旅行对人类来说依然是非常困难的，除了幽闭的小空间可能会对航天员带来心理损伤之外，航天器有限的载重如何在人员、水、空气以及食物之间取得平衡也是一个很大的问题。　　航天员的食物从哪里来？　　如果这些维系生命所必需的物质完全 ...

一个携带一个小行星样本的密封舱，已在今晨成功降落于南澳 Woomera，将助揭示太阳系和地球生命之谜。 隼鳥 2 號對小行星龍宮探測了 1 年半，其 ...

Microscope image of one of the small fragments of asteroid 162173 Ryugu studied by scientists at the Advanced Photon Source. This fragment is roughly 400 microns in diameter, or about the width of ...

The return of these extraterrestrial samples to Earth in 2020 opened the door to new hypotheses. These grains taken from Ryugu, an asteroid located beyond Jupiter, contain crucial elements for the ...