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

A recent discovery made by scientists working with a sample of rock from outer space highlights one of the huge challenges ...

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 ...

Excitement turned to surprise when scientists studying asteroid Ryugu samples found elongated microorganisms. Were they alien ...

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 ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system formed over 4.6 billion years ago. By studying these particles ...