Ryugu asteroid sample rapidly colonized by terrestrial life despite strict contamination control
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Signs of Life in Asteroid Sample Turn Out to Be Something Embarrassing
Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in ...
How Tiny Fragments Unlocked the Hidden 4-Billion-Year History of Asteroid Ryugu
Researchers studied tiny asteroid fragments from Ryugu, revealing that it originated in the outer solar system and evolved ...
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Addressing medicine’s gender data gap and microbes in space: News from Imperial
Researchers were surprised to find live microbes in a rock collected from space. The sample was retrieved on the Japanese ...
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Imperial: Tackling Gender Data Gap, Space Microbes
Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.From new guidelines being adopted by UK government and charity funders on ...
Tiny fragments of a 4-billion-year-old asteroid reveal its history
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...
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Illuminating the Journey of a 4-Billion-Year-Old Asteroid (IMAGE)
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 ...