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Liquid Water Flowed On Ryugu More Than One Billion Years After It Formed


Researchers working with a sample from asteroid Ryugu discovered that water flowed on the asteroid almost one billion years after it formed. The finding suggests that carbon-rich asteroids could've delivered far more water to Earth than thought.

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