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Japanese Spacecraft Heading Towards Asteroid 1998 KY26 – But A New Paper Claims It Will Find An Object Of Technological OriginThe surface of asteroid Ryugu, imaged by the Hayabusa2 probe.

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Japanese Spacecraft Heading Towards Asteroid 1998 KY26 – But A New Paper Claims It Will Find An Object Of Technological OriginThe surface of asteroid Ryugu, imaged by the Hayabusa2 probe.
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Japanese Spacecraft Heading Towards Asteroid 1998 KY26 – But A New Paper Claims It Will Find An Object Of Technological Origin

clock-iconJune 1, 2026
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Intense Bombardment By Micrometeoroids In The Last 1,000 Years Has Left Asteroid Ryugu With A Razor-Thin Skin Rich In Sodiuma picture of ryugu filled with red flares representing the impacts

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Intense Bombardment By Micrometeoroids In The Last 1,000 Years Has Left Asteroid Ryugu With A Razor-Thin Skin Rich In Sodiuma picture of ryugu filled with red flares representing the impacts
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Intense Bombardment By Micrometeoroids In The Last 1,000 Years Has Left Asteroid Ryugu With A Razor-Thin Skin Rich In Sodium

clock-iconApril 24, 2026

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All 5 Genetic Building Blocks Have Been Found On Asteroid Ryuguasteroid ryugu in space. it is shaped like a rhombus and its many boulders on its surface

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All 5 Genetic Building Blocks Have Been Found On Asteroid Ryuguasteroid ryugu in space. it is shaped like a rhombus and its many boulders on its surface
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All 5 Genetic Building Blocks Have Been Found On Asteroid Ryugu

clock-iconMarch 17, 2026
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Ancient Asteroid Ripped Apart In Collision Had Flowing Waterthe surface of the asteroid looks powdery and grwy with many boulders visible.

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Ancient Asteroid Ripped Apart In Collision Had Flowing Waterthe surface of the asteroid looks powdery and grwy with many boulders visible.
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Ancient Asteroid Ripped Apart In Collision Had Flowing Water

clock-iconSeptember 15, 2025

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Asteroids Bennu And Ryugu Could Be Siblings – And We Might Have Found Their Parentryugy is much larger than bennu but both have a diamond shape with a lot of boulders on their surface.

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Asteroids Bennu And Ryugu Could Be Siblings – And We Might Have Found Their Parentryugy is much larger than bennu but both have a diamond shape with a lot of boulders on their surface.
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Asteroids Bennu And Ryugu Could Be Siblings – And We Might Have Found Their Parent

clock-iconAugust 25, 2025

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Asteroid Bennu Is A "Frankenstein's Monster" Of Material From The Inner Solar System, Outer, And Beyonda gloved hand holding a microscope slide with bennu grains inside

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Asteroid Bennu Is A "Frankenstein's Monster" Of Material From The Inner Solar System, Outer, And Beyonda gloved hand holding a microscope slide with bennu grains inside
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Asteroid Bennu Is A "Frankenstein's Monster" Of Material From The Inner Solar System, Outer, And Beyond

clock-iconAugust 22, 2025

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Asteroid Ryugu’s Latest Mineral Is As Weird As Finding “A Tropical Seed In The Arctic”the asteroid is a grey rhombus against the black of space. it is has a rough surface with several boulders visible on it.

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Asteroid Ryugu’s Latest Mineral Is As Weird As Finding “A Tropical Seed In The Arctic”the asteroid is a grey rhombus against the black of space. it is has a rough surface with several boulders visible on it.
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Asteroid Ryugu’s Latest Mineral Is As Weird As Finding “A Tropical Seed In The Arctic”

clock-iconJuly 3, 2025
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Asteroid Sample Was Quickly Taken Over By Life – In A Sterilized Environment!the asteroid is a grey rhombus against the black of space. it is has a rough surface with several boulders visible on it.

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Asteroid Sample Was Quickly Taken Over By Life – In A Sterilized Environment!the asteroid is a grey rhombus against the black of space. it is has a rough surface with several boulders visible on it.
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Asteroid Sample Was Quickly Taken Over By Life – In A Sterilized Environment!

clock-iconNovember 28, 2024
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Solar System’s Ancient Magnetic Field Found Thanks To Tiny Grain From Asteroid RyuguArtist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. When nuclear fusion first ignited in our Sun’s central core, our Solar System may have looked very similar to this.

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Solar System’s Ancient Magnetic Field Found Thanks To Tiny Grain From Asteroid RyuguArtist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. When nuclear fusion first ignited in our Sun’s central core, our Solar System may have looked very similar to this.
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Solar System’s Ancient Magnetic Field Found Thanks To Tiny Grain From Asteroid Ryugu

clock-iconNovember 8, 2024
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Organic Molecules In Asteroid Ryugu Samples Came From Cold Interstellar SpaceRyugu seen by Hayabusa-2

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Organic Molecules In Asteroid Ryugu Samples Came From Cold Interstellar SpaceRyugu seen by Hayabusa-2
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Organic Molecules In Asteroid Ryugu Samples Came From Cold Interstellar Space

clock-iconDecember 22, 2023
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Water On Ryugu’s Parent Shaped The Distribution Of Its ElementsRyugu looks about as dry as it is possible to be, but we've found another clue the larger object it came from was wet

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Water On Ryugu’s Parent Shaped The Distribution Of Its ElementsRyugu looks about as dry as it is possible to be, but we've found another clue the larger object it came from was wet
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Water On Ryugu’s Parent Shaped The Distribution Of Its Elements

clock-iconNovember 8, 2023
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Building Blocks Of RNA And Vitamin B3 Found On Asteroid RyuguA conceptual image for sampling materials on the asteroid Ryugu containing uracil and niacin by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft

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Building Blocks Of RNA And Vitamin B3 Found On Asteroid RyuguA conceptual image for sampling materials on the asteroid Ryugu containing uracil and niacin by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft
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Building Blocks Of RNA And Vitamin B3 Found On Asteroid Ryugu

clock-iconMarch 21, 2023
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Asteroid Ryugu Was Changed By Water And Holds Organic Molecules Older Than The Sunthe asteroid is a grey rhombus against the black of space. it is has a rough surface with several boulders visible on it.

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Asteroid Ryugu Was Changed By Water And Holds Organic Molecules Older Than The Sunthe asteroid is a grey rhombus against the black of space. it is has a rough surface with several boulders visible on it.
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Asteroid Ryugu Was Changed By Water And Holds Organic Molecules Older Than The Sun

clock-iconFebruary 23, 2023
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Asteroid Ryugu Formed Far Away From Earth Before Moving Close To Our PlanetThe image has the JAXA image of ryugu a diamando shape pile or rubble and the buttered image of potato shape comet Wild 2

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Asteroid Ryugu Formed Far Away From Earth Before Moving Close To Our PlanetThe image has the JAXA image of ryugu a diamando shape pile or rubble and the buttered image of potato shape comet Wild 2
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Asteroid Ryugu Formed Far Away From Earth Before Moving Close To Our Planet

clock-iconDecember 16, 2022
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Six Percent Of Earth's Mass Was Brought By Asteroids From The Outer Solar SystemA little plastic back hold by two begloved hands show a little plastic

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Six Percent Of Earth's Mass Was Brought By Asteroids From The Outer Solar SystemA little plastic back hold by two begloved hands show a little plastic
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Six Percent Of Earth's Mass Was Brought By Asteroids From The Outer Solar System

clock-iconDecember 12, 2022
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