Imagine that, for billions of years, you're a grain of material unbothered on asteroid Ryugu. All of a sudden, a spacecraft ...

See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...

A sample of the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 mission was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in ...

Samples taken from the space-returned piece of asteroid Ryugu were collected and prepared under strict anti-contamination ...

Researchers studied tiny asteroid fragments from Ryugu, revealing that it originated in the outer solar system and evolved ...

Everything on Earth and made on Earth is awash in microbial contamination, which persists through intense decontamination ...

When scientists discovered water and a chemical compound common in RNA on a rock from the asteroid Ryugu, astronomy fans and ...

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.From new guidelines being adopted by UK government and charity funders on ...

Researchers were surprised to find live microbes in a rock collected from space. The sample was retrieved on the Japanese ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...