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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...