Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the stew needed to mix them.

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 grams. NASA's Osiris-Rex probe has brought a total of 121.6 grams of ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned triumphantly to Earth in 2023 after ... with no exposure to outside air. The sample ...

Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier ... Pictures beamed back to Earth show a rock has wedged open the door of a container and a fraction of the sample is leaking ...

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid ... To avoid contamination, the sample container was taken to a clean room before being opened. The researchers behind ...

Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier this week, were worried after a rock wedged open the door of a container. This meant that samples were spilling out from the craft.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous ... sodium carbonate salts highlighted in purple. The Bennu sample container. Credit: NASA "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016. The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the grayish, ...