Scientists have discovered an abundance of material after opening the OSIRIS-REx canister containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu, which could offer key insights into the origins of ...

Scientists have taken their first glimpse of a sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu — and stumbled upon a good bit more than they expected. When they opened the canister ...

The sample will be moved to its new home at the Johnson Space Center in Houston Monday for curation and processing. The agency said the sample will be unveiled to the public on Wednesday, Oct. 11.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off. This week. the spacecraft ...

Deep space asteroid sample contains unexpected ingredient. ... Scanning electron micrograph of the number 15 grain of sample plate C0105-042 from Ryugu, in which djerfisherite was discovered.

In 2020, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft returned to Earth with 5.4 grams of rock from the 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid Ryugu. After the sample capsule landed in Australia, it was transported to ...

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.

The sample was collected on Jan. 31 and is informally known as "Malay." The sample itself is about the size of a piece of chalk and protected from the harsh Martian environment within the titanium ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag—and it’s colossal "It is better to not do it than to torch the whole science community." Eric Berger – Jun 23, 2023 12:01 pm | 456 ...