Scientists studying samples collected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) asteroid explorer Hayabusa2 have made an exciting discovery about the effects of space weathering on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Using a technique called electron holography, the team examined the magnetic properties of the samples to gain insights into the magnetic field in the early solar […]

On September 24, NASA’s historic OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu after a seven-year journey through space. This marks the first American mission to bring back samples from an asteroid. The sample return capsule (SRC) landed within a designated area at the Utah Test and Training Range and Dugway Proving Ground […]