The NASA spacecraft almost sunk into the loosely packed surface when it descended to collect its sample in 2020. This helped OSIRIS-REx to scoop up 121.6 g (4.29 oz), far more than the amount that ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar ...

In late September 2023, the samples from OSIRIS-REx were delivered back to Earth inside a capsule. Whilst NASA tracked and retrieved the sample return capsule, ready to analyze the samples ...

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...

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The research marks the first in-depth analysis of Bennu’s organics and minerals and more scientific results from the OSIRIS-REx team are due in the coming months. NASA has also stored 70% of the ...