A recent study published in Nature Astronomy supports an increasingly widespread idea: that some of the “building blocks of life” may have come from space, carried by primitive asteroids.
Sergio Messina Meteored Italy
The analysis of samples from the asteroid Ryugu, collected and brought back to Earth, was made possible thanks to the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission.
Hayabusa 2, a Japanese Space Mission
The Hayabusa2 probe studied the asteroid Ryugu, collected rock samples, and brought them back to Earth. It was launched in 2014, arrived at Ryugu in 2018, collected samples in 2019, and returned to Earth in 2021. The probe is currently on an extended…
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