Japan finds evidence of twice as much water in asteroid than thought

Samples from Hayabusa2 spacecraft offer new hints about Earth's formation

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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft brought samples from the asteroid Ryugu back to Earth. (JAXA)

MANA KURODA and SHOJI YANO

TOKYO -- A group of researchers from the University of Tokyo and elsewhere has found that a type of asteroid that contributed water to Earth's formation may have contained more than twice as much water than previously thought.

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