Across the vast distances of the solar system, humanity's probes have touched the surface of asteroid Bennu and returned with a humbling revelation: the ground beneath them was barely ground at all. New research confirms that Bennu's surface material is fifty times weaker than ground coffee, its fragility determined by the geometry and distribution of its constituent particles. This finding quietly reshapes how scientists and mission planners must think about what it means to 'land' on another world — and how ancient, loosely held things can still carry profound secrets about the origins of ou