The rock is just a portion of a sample from asteroid Bennu collected in 2020 during NASA’s 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission. Bennu then landed on Earth in 2023. It is the third asteroid sample to reach ...

An estimated 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid orbiting at a relative proximity to Earth, Bennu makes for the perfect asteroid to study, Heck said.

In 2018, it arrived at Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Sears Tower is tall. The mission collected pieces of the asteroid and brought them back to Earth in 2023.

NASA’s sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu, Osiris-Rex, pulled off the same feat in 2020. China’s space agency has executed two successful sample return missions to the moon — in ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Senate Approves Banning Unemployment Benefits For People With More ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 23, 2016 ” The Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft is scheduled to launch ...