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 samples retrieved from an asteroid called Ryugu. The Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft obtained the samples from the space rock in 2019.
Researchers studied tiny asteroid fragments from Ryugu, revealing that it originated in the outer solar system and evolved ...
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Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...
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 ...
When scientists discovered water and a chemical compound common in RNA on a rock from the asteroid Ryugu, astronomy fans and ...
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 ...
A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life.
Researchers were surprised to find live microbes in a rock collected from space. The sample was retrieved on the Japanese ...
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