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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A stunning image of asteroid Ryugu has ignited a storm on social media, with its clarity and detail capturing the imagination of users worldwide. It is thought that these rocky formations are made ...

隼鸟2号 2014 年 12 月从地球出发，2018年6月抵达距地球约 3 亿公里的小行星 162173 Ryugu (龙宫)。它对龙宫探测了 1 年半，并搜集了岩石样本，之后在 ...

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 ...

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 ...