An Asteroid’s Billion-Year-Old Secret Is a “Genuine Surprise” to Scientists

An Asteroid’s Billion-Year-Old Secret Is a “Genuine Surprise” to Scientists

Liquid water on asteroids reshapes how we understand the early solar system. A group of scientists, including researchers from the University of Tokyo, has found evidence that liquid water once moved through the body of the asteroid that eventually gave rise to the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. Remark

Scientists Uncover a Billion-Year-Old Surprise Inside Asteroid Ryugu!

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature, scientists have revealed an astonishing discovery about the asteroid Ryugu, showing that liquid water flowed through its parent body much later than previously thought—more than a billion years after it was formed. This unexpected finding challenges long-held beliefs about the role asteroids play in the solar system’s early water distribution and forces us to reconsider Earth’s own water origins. Re…