The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized ...

Here’s how it works. NASA's OSIRIS-REx is an ongoing mission that visited and collected a sample from asteroid 101955 Bennu and returned the sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. The spacecraft is ...

A sample of the asteroid 101955 Bennu was returned to Earth on Sunday by NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission.

Nearly two years ago, NASA made history when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly “tagged” 101955 Bennu to collect a regolith sample from the surface of the asteroid. While the mission won’t ...

The agency says the asteroid Bennu is rich in carbon and water, which could mean it has the building blocks of life. OSIRIS-REx launched seven years ago en route to the near-Earth asteroid 101955 ...

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OSIRIS-REx. The sample from an asteroid named 101955 Bennu was returned to Earth on Sept. 24,; May and fellow citizen scientist Claudia Manzoni were invited to examine visual data collected by ...

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This figure illustrates key molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, which were delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023.

The team used unprecedented, high-resolution global data sets to examine craters on Bennu: images from the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite ... Crater population on asteroid (101955) Bennu indicates ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. The original photo was too ...