The space agency has just announced plans to fly to an asteroid, snag a boulder, fly back toward Earth and put the rock in orbit around the moon. Because science.

When a pebble hits a boulder it rebounds, whereas when it hits a sea of other pebbles it aggregates. Researchers term this process 'ballistic sorting.' Credit: OIST ...

Bizarre meteorite is 1st to show scars from pebble-shooting asteroid. News. By Charles Q. Choi published 11 August 2022 ... "This constant thermal cycling makes the rock brittle, ...

Meteorite provides record of asteroids 'spitting out' pebbles Date: August 11, 2022 Source: Field Museum Summary: Scientists found marble-sized chunks of rock in an asteroid sample that wouldn't ...

As the lead singer of the rock band Queen, the late Freddie Mercury was always a star. Now he’s an asteroid, too. Mercury’s bandmate Brian May and a Boulder astronomer got an asteroid n… ...