JAXA to announce "major discovery" about asteroids next spring

Japan's space agency said Monday it plans to release a paper on a "major discovery" in the field of asteroids as early as next spring based on soil samples from an asteroid that the Hayabusa2 probe brought back to Earth in December last year.A capsule from the probe, containing more than 5.4 grams of soil samples from the Ryugu asteroid located over 300 million kilometers from Earth, returned exactly a year ago.The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to submit the paper on the findings to a major scientific journal, possibly within this year, Tomohiro Usui, manager of the Astromaterial…READ FULL ARTICLE