Ryugu OSIRIS-REx is now going to go asteroid hopping to the space rock that once threatened Earth Yes, that asteroid. By Elizabeth Rayne 1 week ago Is Ryugu a dead comet masquerading as an asteroid? The near-Earth object looks like an asteroid but may be an ice-free comet By Phil Plait 1 month ago Ryugu’s cosmic dust is some of the oldest stuff in the universe When scientists say an asteroid has “some of the most primordial material ever examined,” it’s for real. By Elizabeth Rayne 4 months ago NASA got a Ryugu sample, and it could be a time capsule of the solar system NASA now has a rare sample from Asteroid Ryugu, and the secrets of the solar system might be hiding in there. By Elizabeth Rayne 4 months ago Watch as Hayabusa2 blasts a 17.6-meter-wide crater into an asteroid By Phil Plait 2 years ago Guy walks out to his front yard, finds a rock from the birth of the solar system By Elizabeth Rayne 2 years ago Ryugu’s history has been… weird By Phil Plait 2 years ago Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth By Phil Plait 2 years ago The asteroid Ryugu is a weird, fragile thing By Phil Plait 2 years ago Japan once again shoots a bullet at an asteroid… and the video is amazing. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Load More
OSIRIS-REx is now going to go asteroid hopping to the space rock that once threatened Earth Yes, that asteroid. By Elizabeth Rayne 1 week ago
Is Ryugu a dead comet masquerading as an asteroid? The near-Earth object looks like an asteroid but may be an ice-free comet By Phil Plait 1 month ago
Ryugu’s cosmic dust is some of the oldest stuff in the universe When scientists say an asteroid has “some of the most primordial material ever examined,” it’s for real. By Elizabeth Rayne 4 months ago
NASA got a Ryugu sample, and it could be a time capsule of the solar system NASA now has a rare sample from Asteroid Ryugu, and the secrets of the solar system might be hiding in there. By Elizabeth Rayne 4 months ago
Guy walks out to his front yard, finds a rock from the birth of the solar system By Elizabeth Rayne 2 years ago