Two of the solar system's most famous asteroids, Bennu and Ryugu, may be fragments of a single massive "parent" asteroid that was smashed to pieces billions of years ago, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals.
If true, the sibling space rocks — which have both recently been visited by spacecraft that successfully returned samples of them to Earth — could shed light on how asteroid families are created and dispersed throughout our cosmic neighborhood.
