09 May 2018
First confirmed carbon-rich asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
... asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Carbonaceous or C-type asteroids are the most common type of asteroid – Bennu, the target asteroid for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is one, but like most of this type they...
05 March 2021
For the first time, organic materials essential for life have been found on the surface of an asteroid
...’s Hayabusa2 and NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex missions have identified exogeneous materials on the target asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, respectively, our findings suggest that mixing of materials is a common process in our Solar System, Chan concludes...
22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
... Earth, scientists think it might be like similarly shaped asteroids that have already been visited by spacecraft, such as Bennu and Ryugu. A few years after its discovery, scientists confirmed that Didymos had a moon that orbited...
24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
... – or if it’s composed of smaller rocks and dust clumped together like some of its larger asteroid cousins, such as asteroid Bennu. “Thanks to the discoveries of NEAs by Earth-based observatories, several targets had been identified for NEA Scout...
