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Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA, suggesting these ...

All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected ...

All five canonical nucleobases, which form the basis of DNA and RNA that carry genetic information, were found in sand ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from ...

Since last year, Hayabusa2, the Japanese probe, has been studying the asteroid called Ryugu. Since last year, Hayabusa2, the Japanese probe, has been studying the asteroid called Ryugu. It surveyed ...

Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of life Scientists have found that all five of ...

Hayabusa2 deployed a camera to film the plume of regolith thrown up by the impact. Courtesy of JAXA Last April, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft created an artificial crater on the asteroid, Ryugu, by ...