The team discovered that the material, or ejecta, returned to the surface of the asteroid and slid down its face. This triggered an avalanche that slowly rolled to the equator of Bennu. Perry ...

NASA has shared a high-resolution image of the asteroid Bennu sample inside the Touch-and-Go-Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), which remained closed because of stuck fasteners until last week.

The latest hint that Bennu was not what it seemed came after the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft picked up a sample and beamed stunning, close-up images of the asteroid’s surface to Earth.

Captured on Oct. 20, during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of 82 images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft ...

The probe sank as deep as 30 inches (70 cm), revealing pristine material that, unlike the asteroid's surface, was unaltered by the steady battering of cosmic rays and the solar wind, the streams ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

These specimens are from the U.S. National Mineral Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and show the minerals observed in Bennu samples as formed and found on Earth.

A near-Earth asteroid named Bennu has a loosely packed surface similar to a pit of plastic balls, according to NASA scientists. A spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid in October 2020 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex studied this celestial body for 505 days and even flew down to its surface to collect a sample. But the collection went a bit too well. It appears that its collecting arm ...

This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 19, 2019, was created by combining two images taken on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

An SwRI-led study found that the surface regolith of the asteroid Bennu is primarily loose rubble. Images taken before and after the touch-and-go sample collection indicate surface disturbances up ...

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