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Asteroid Discovery Suggests Ingredients for Life on Earth Came From Space
Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago. Scientists said on Tuesday they detected uracil and niacin in rocks obtained by the Japanese Sp...
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How 3 Specks Of Dust Collected In 2005 Reveal An Asteroid's Secrets
It took the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa five years to return them to Earth, along with hundreds of other particles from Itokawa, and scientists have been analysing them for clues ever since.
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Asteroids May Have Brought Water To Earth Billions Of Years Ago: Study
Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission.
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Asteroids From Outer Edges of Solar System May Have Brought Water to Earth, Suggests New Study
Asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system may have brought water to Earth, claim scientists after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission Hayabusa-2. The researchers are scrutinising material brought back to earth in 2020 from the asteroid Ryugu.
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Ryugu Samples Are Most Contaminant-Free Outer Solar System Particles, Says Study
In an in-depth analysis conducted by a team of Japanese researchers at JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), it is found that the Ryugu samples brought on Earth in December 2020 by the Japanese aircraft Hayabusa-2 are the most “uncontaminated” samples. This will help scientists get a crystal-clear insight into the chem...
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6-Year Space Mission's Surprising Conclusion About Water On Earth
Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission.
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NASA’s DART Asteroid Mission Could Severely Deform Target Asteroid, New Study Reveals
NASA's DART mission could completely deform the target asteroid upon impact, according to a new study. Based on direct evidence from space missions like the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 probe that shows an asteroid can have a very loose internal structure, researchers have performed new simulations on the ambitious mission to collide with an a...
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Asteroid Dust Collected By Japan Space Mission Arrives On Earth
In a streak of light across the night sky, samples collected from a distant asteroid arrived on Earth on Sunday after being dropped off by Japanese space probe Hayabusa-2.
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Japan Creates First Artificial Crater On Asteroid
Japanese scientists have succeeded in creating what they called the first-ever artificial crater on an asteroid, a step towards shedding light on how the solar system evolved, the country's space agency said Thursday.
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Japan Probe Blasts Asteroid, Seeking Clues to Life's Origins
The explosive mission is the riskiest yet attempted by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 probe.
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Japan Space Agency's Probe Sends Impactor To Blast Asteroid
A Japanese probe on Friday launched an explosive device at an asteroid, aiming to blast a crater in the surface and scoop up material that could shed light on how the solar system evolved.
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Japanese Space Probe Touches Down On Asteroid To Collect Samples
A Japanese space probe named after a falcon, Hayabusa 2, has touched down on an asteroid more than 300 million kmfrom Earth on a mission to seek clues about the origins of life, Japan's space agency said on Friday.
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Japan's Hayabusa2 Probe To Land On Asteroid On February 22
A Japanese probe Hayabusa2 sent to examine an asteroid in order to shed light on the origins of the solar system is expected to land on the rock later this month, officials said
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Japan Space Probe Launches New Robot Onto Asteroid
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe launched the French-German Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, or MASCOT, towards the Ryugu asteroid's surface on Wednesday.
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Japan Space Probe Launches New Robot Towards Asteroid
A Japanese probe launched a new observation robot towards an asteroid on Wednesday as it pursues a mission to shed light on the origins of the solar system.
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Asteroid Discovery Suggests Ingredients for Life on Earth Came From Space
Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago. Scientists said on Tuesday they detected uracil and niacin in rocks obtained by the Japanese Sp...
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How 3 Specks Of Dust Collected In 2005 Reveal An Asteroid's Secrets
It took the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa five years to return them to Earth, along with hundreds of other particles from Itokawa, and scientists have been analysing them for clues ever since.
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Asteroids May Have Brought Water To Earth Billions Of Years Ago: Study
Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission.
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Asteroids From Outer Edges of Solar System May Have Brought Water to Earth, Suggests New Study
Asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system may have brought water to Earth, claim scientists after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission Hayabusa-2. The researchers are scrutinising material brought back to earth in 2020 from the asteroid Ryugu.
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Ryugu Samples Are Most Contaminant-Free Outer Solar System Particles, Says Study
In an in-depth analysis conducted by a team of Japanese researchers at JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), it is found that the Ryugu samples brought on Earth in December 2020 by the Japanese aircraft Hayabusa-2 are the most “uncontaminated” samples. This will help scientists get a crystal-clear insight into the chem...
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6-Year Space Mission's Surprising Conclusion About Water On Earth
Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission.
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NASA’s DART Asteroid Mission Could Severely Deform Target Asteroid, New Study Reveals
NASA's DART mission could completely deform the target asteroid upon impact, according to a new study. Based on direct evidence from space missions like the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 probe that shows an asteroid can have a very loose internal structure, researchers have performed new simulations on the ambitious mission to collide with an a...
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Asteroid Dust Collected By Japan Space Mission Arrives On Earth
In a streak of light across the night sky, samples collected from a distant asteroid arrived on Earth on Sunday after being dropped off by Japanese space probe Hayabusa-2.
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Japan Creates First Artificial Crater On Asteroid
Japanese scientists have succeeded in creating what they called the first-ever artificial crater on an asteroid, a step towards shedding light on how the solar system evolved, the country's space agency said Thursday.
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Japan Probe Blasts Asteroid, Seeking Clues to Life's Origins
The explosive mission is the riskiest yet attempted by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 probe.
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Japan Space Agency's Probe Sends Impactor To Blast Asteroid
A Japanese probe on Friday launched an explosive device at an asteroid, aiming to blast a crater in the surface and scoop up material that could shed light on how the solar system evolved.
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Japanese Space Probe Touches Down On Asteroid To Collect Samples
A Japanese space probe named after a falcon, Hayabusa 2, has touched down on an asteroid more than 300 million kmfrom Earth on a mission to seek clues about the origins of life, Japan's space agency said on Friday.
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Japan's Hayabusa2 Probe To Land On Asteroid On February 22
A Japanese probe Hayabusa2 sent to examine an asteroid in order to shed light on the origins of the solar system is expected to land on the rock later this month, officials said
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Japan Space Probe Launches New Robot Onto Asteroid
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe launched the French-German Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, or MASCOT, towards the Ryugu asteroid's surface on Wednesday.
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Japan Space Probe Launches New Robot Towards Asteroid
A Japanese probe launched a new observation robot towards an asteroid on Wednesday as it pursues a mission to shed light on the origins of the solar system.
