Carbonaceous asteroids, such as (101955) Bennu, preserve material from the early Solar
System, including volatile compounds and organic molecules. We report spacecraft imaging …

When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft pressed its sample collection mechanism into the surface
of Bennu, it provided a direct test of the poorly understood near-subsurface physical …

Thermal inertia and surface roughness are proxies for the physical characteristics of
planetary surfaces. Global maps of these two properties distinguish the boulder population …

INTRODUCTION The color and reflectance of asteroids can be used to infer their
compositions and histories. Variations in these spectrophotometric properties are driven by …

INTRODUCTION Carbonaceous asteroids formed early in Solar System history and
experienced varying degrees of aqueous (water-rock) and thermal alteration. Most models …

Images collected during NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission provide
the first resolved views of the Didymos binary asteroid system. These images reveal that the …

This paper summarizes the evidence for the optical effects of space weathering, as well as
the properties of the surface that control optical changes, on asteroid (101955) Bennu. First …

The gravity field of a small body provides insight into its internal mass distribution. We used
two approaches to measure the gravity field of the rubble-pile asteroid (101955) Bennu:(i) …

NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, collected a sample from the
surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and will deliver it to Earth in …

Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft mission characterized and collected a sample from …