The photos of asteroid Ryugu were taken by Japan's Hayabusa2 unmanned asteroid probe, while those of asteroid Bennu were taken by the U.S. probe Osiris-Rex. The findings were published Monday in ...

potentially modulated by the Yarkovsky–O’Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack (YORP) effect. Understanding the influence of space weathering on the internal properties and joint behavior of grain within rubble ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

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In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth itself. When the capsule was opened in 2023, scientists were stunned by ...

According to the results so far, an asteroid like Bennu that is rich in carbon could need several small bumps to charge its course. 'These results indicate multiple successive impacts may be ...