TOKYO -- Water has been found in an asteroid sample collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe, marking the first such discovery and shedding light on how the Earth's oceans may have formed.
Confirmation may provide clues to origins of Earth's oceans
The Hayabusa2 space probe hovers over an asteroid in this artist's rendering. (Image courtesy of JAXA)
RYOSUKE MATSUZOE and TOMOYUKI ENDO, Nikkei staff writers
September 23, 2022 03:00 JST
