The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently ... the surface in the process due to Bennu’s loose “rubble pile” composition. OSIRIS-REx collected more than ...

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 ...

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 ...