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 …

The exploration of small celestial bodies (SCBs) is important for understanding the evolution
of the Solar System and the origin of life on Earth, as well as developing and utilizing …

The impactor-to-crater size scaling relationships that enable estimates of planetary surface
ages rely on an accurate formulation of impactor–target physics. An armouring regime …

The mutual gravitational interaction of binary asteroids, which make up approximately 15 per
cent of the near-Earth asteroid (NEA) population, provides a continuous tidal force, creating …

Rubble pile asteroids are widely understood to be composed of reaccumulated debris
following a catastrophic collision between asteroids in the main asteroid belt, where each …

The resurfacing process on Ryugu accompanying the artificial impact crater formation by
Hayabusa2's Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) was studied by comparing pre-and post-impact …

Abstract The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will study the Martian moons
Phobos and Deimos, Mars, and their environments. The mission scenario includes both …

Context. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will kinetically impact
Dimorphos, the secondary component of the Didymos binary asteroid system, which will …

Rubble-pile asteroids such as Bennu and Ryugu have boulder-covered surfaces and
latitude-dependent slope distributions, signifying that mass movement of boulders could …

An asteroid's interior dictates how its space environment changes its shape and surface,
which provides a record of the collisional and dynamical evolution of the Solar System …