NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Most of the $1 billion mission's cache has been set aside for future analysis. Scientists stress more testing is needed to better understand the Bennu samples, as well as more asteroid and comet ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. The findings do not show ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke. Our research team has ...

Leaders of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission have confirmed that the spacecraft collected a significant amount of material from the asteroid Bennu during its October 20 encounter. In fact, the ...

Researcher Jason Dworkin holds a vial of asteroid Bennu sample from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, delivered to Earth in 2023. © NASA/James Tralie Asteroid Bennu not ...