
At Asteroid Ryugu, Japan's Hayabusa 2 Spacecraft Preps for Exploration
The probe will map the surface, deploy rovers and collect pristine samples that could contain clues about the origins of life on Earth
Elizabeth Tasker is an Associate Professor at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), where her research focuses on building stars and planets inside computers. She is the author of the popular science book, 'The Planet Factory', which was published last year. Elizabeth can be followed on twitter talking about exoplanets and life in Japan @girlandkat. Follow Elizabeth Tasker on Twitter @girlandkat Credit: Nick Higgins
The probe will map the surface, deploy rovers and collect pristine samples that could contain clues about the origins of life on Earth
It’s completely unclear whether conditions on these distant worlds are favorable for life, so we need different terminology
Meteorites might have delivered some of the basic building blocks, but there are still some missing pieces to the puzzle
...let's not lose our minds
It wasn't a meteorite or a piece of space junk, says a major report—it was human error on multiple levels
Gravitational waves rippling through the cosmos, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's General Relativity, have eluded detection so far—but physicists aren't giving up
Mysterious tables of astronomical information have been found in 4,000-year-old coffins. What in the world was their purpose?
“Imagine standing on the roof of a three storey building and lowering the lead of a mechanical pencil so that it hits the center of a coin sitting on the ground.
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