How was the solar system formed? The Ryugu asteroid is helping us learn
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
Mineral samples collected from the Ryugu asteroid by the Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft are helping UCLA space scientists and colleagues better understand the chemical composition of our solar system as it existed in its infancy, more than 4.5 billion years ago. In research recently published in Nature Astronomy, scientists using isotopic analysis discovered that carbonate minerals from the