... to other-world bodies to examine them up close. As part of their Hayabusa2 mission, which is currently exploring the asteroid Ryugu, the agency’s Mobile Asteroid and Surface Scout (MASCOT) lander ‘hopped’ across the asteroid’s surface and...
... on its surface, a mysterious mass was found under its South Pole Along with the Moon, Mars, Ryugu, FarFarOut, Ultima Thule (now renamed Arrokoth after a controversy over the old name's Nazi connections) and...
... 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 about one...