Last month, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spaceship dropped off a sample of dirt from the Bennu asteroid. Scientists have been studying it ever since. The black rocky regolith, or debris, contains carbon and ...

NASA’s first spacecraft to collect a sample from an asteroid will complete its 7-year mission later this year when OSIRIS-REx drops off some of asteroid Bennu in Utah.

NASA officials in Houston displayed images of salt-and-pepper chunks of rock and particles of dark space dust that were brought back to Earth from the asteroid, Bennu, and described initial ...

A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, ... The images were taken on Dec. 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s PolyCam camera.

NASA’s first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system ...

In October 2020, NASA’s OSRISIS-REx spacecraft made history by touching down on the asteroid Bennu and grabbing a sample of rock and debris. New analysis of this encounter has revealed the probe ...

The photos and videos displayed at the event Wednesday were of overflow samples. The goal of the OSIRIS-REx sample collection was 60 grams of asteroid material. So far, the estimated material ...

As NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descended toward asteroid Bennu to grab a sample of its surface materials, mission principal investigator Lauretta and his team knew the process would leave a ...

The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in Oct 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the Department of ...

A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, ... The images were taken on Dec. 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s PolyCam camera.