The Hayabusa2 spacecraft collected samples from the surface of the carbonaceous near-
Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu and brought them to Earth. The samples were expected to …

Carbonaceous meteorites are thought to be fragments of C-type (carbonaceous) asteroids.
Samples of the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu were retrieved by the Hayabusa2 …

Without a protective atmosphere, space-exposed surfaces of airless Solar System bodies
gradually experience an alteration in composition, structure and optical properties through a …

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

The near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu is expected to contain volatile
chemical species that could provide information on the origin of Earth's volatiles. Samples of …

Little is known about the origin of the spectral diversity of asteroids and what it says about
conditions in the protoplanetary disk. Here, we show that samples returned from Cb-type …

Spacecraft observations revealed that rocks on carbonaceous asteroids, which constitute
the most numerous class by composition, can develop millimeter-to-meter-scale fractures …

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 …

Small bodies are among the best tracers of our Solar System's history. A large number of
space missions to small bodies (past and future) offer a unique opportunity to use these …

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission intentionally impacted the
asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, and this kinetic impact changed Dimorphos' …