Ancient pieces of Ryugu

 

The samples returned by Hayabusa2 from asteroid Ryugu have provided some interesting results.

'Building blocks of life' recovered from asteroid Ryugu are older than the solar system itself

"And according to a second study, also published in Science, the organic materials on Ryugu may even predate the formation of the solar system itself, instead having formed in a primordial cloud of interstellar dust that eventually coalesced into Ryugu's parent body. In other words, many of the ingredients for life may be baked into the solar system from the very start."

Ryugu from Hayabusa2