Bennu, a cosmic time capsule, held secrets millions of years old. OSIRIS-REx's touchdown brought humanity closer to the stars ...

NASA collected 121.6 grams of material from asteroid Bennu — doubling the amount of material needed to meet the mission’s science goal. The announcement comes roughly one month after engineers ...

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In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

The tiny pieces of rock and dust from the object known as Bennu will be subjected to a battery of tests at the Natural History Museum, and the Open, Manchester and Oxford universities. It is a ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return home on 24 September 2023 with material from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. If all goes to plan, the capsule ...

Here are five asteroids that pose the greatest risk to Earth. Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk to Earth. Though the chance of impact is only 0.037% (1 in 2,700 ...

NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, to provide an update on science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA has successfully returned a 250-gram sample of dirt from a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. Scientists around the world will study the rock particles to see ...

Bennu - the asteroid could hold clues as to how the Solar System was formed A Nasa probe sent to collect rock from an asteroid several hundred million kilometres from Earth has grabbed so much ...