NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

As a "rubble pile" asteroid, Ryugu offers scientists a glimpse into the chaotic early days of the solar system when planetary bodies were still forming. Its unique structure provides critical data ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid. Scientists believe Bennu was once part of a larger “parent” asteroid that lost a few pieces due to an impact. Then ...

In 2019, the OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at the B-type asteroid Bennu, the rubble pile left behind from a much larger body millions of years ago. The craft collected samples from Bennu and sent them to ...

At the moment, we don’t know the exact size of 2024 YR4, or even if it's a rubble pile asteroid too – but hitting rubble pile asteroids with a spacecraft like DART could potentially generate a ...

Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks. The latest results suggest this ...

Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks. The latest results ...

While far smaller than the 10-kilometer asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, it could still cause significant destruction. "If it’s a rubble-pile asteroid, an impact would ...