Asteroid Bennu, sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2020, is a mixture of dust that formed in our solar system, organic matter from interstellar space, and pre-solar system stardust. Its unique and varied contents were dramatically transformed over time by interactions with water and exposure to the harsh space environment. These insights come from a trio of newly published papers …
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The asteroids Bennu and Ryugu may both be fragments of the massive “parent” rock Polana (shown breaking apart here in a NASA illustration), new James Webb telescope data hints. | Credit: NASA Two of the solar system’s most famous asteroids, Bennu and Ryugu, …
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Two of the solar system‘s most famous asteroids, Bennu and Ryugu, may be fragments of a single massive “parent” asteroid that was smashed to pieces billions of years ago, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals. If true, the sibling space rocks — which have both recently been visited by spacecraft that successfully returned samples of them …
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