Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...

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Bad news, folks: those samples from the asteroid Ryugu appear to have been contaminated by life here on Earth.

Imagine that, for billions of years, you're a grain of material unbothered on asteroid Ryugu. All of a sudden, a spacecraft ...

The samples were originally collected by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2. The spacecraft spent more than a year investigating Ryugu before returning to Earth. As it approached our planet ...

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Artwork: Hayabusa-2 made its way back to Earth after visiting the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu The first large sample of rock and soil from an asteroid is making its way back to Earth. A capsule ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

There is, of course, the bonkers 1970s Comuta Car Hayabusa build. And very recently, we introduced you to MilkJug 2.0, which is a Hayabusa-swapped Smart ForTwo. Oh, and that last one is also ...

Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe departed for Earth on Nov. 13 after completing its mission to explore and collect samples from the asteroid Ryugu. It had been on a mission to investigate the ...

There are three engine control options ranging from 1 to 3 — 1 being the fullest throttle response to let open maximum Hayabusa hyperbike carnage. Mode 2 for a more tamed throttle and engine ...