We join Professor Russell, a planetary scientist and the co-author of two new major studies on asteroid Bennu. From studying ...

Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson OSIRIS-REx reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the ...

The data from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu revealed that they could be from the Polana asteroid family, along with ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

In September 2023, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer ...

By using JWST, researchers obtained the highest-quality light spectrum from Polana in the near-infrared; this was compared to ...