In September 2023, the NASA-owned OSIRIS-REx probe delivered to Earth a capsule containing valuable ... NASA examines material from the asteroid Bennu The sample also detected magnesium and ...

OSIRIS-REx isn't done yet. After swinging past Earth to drop off the Bennu Sample, it is now headed out to intercept the orbit of asteroid Apophis. In doing so, OSIRIS-REx was officially renamed ...

24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touched down safely ... other bodies with these ingredients. The Bennu sample results were not the only asteroid discovery announced this week.

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...

Tantalizing evidence in the Bennu sample suggests that the asteroid contains constituents of the “primordial soup” that scientists believe likely led to life emerging on Earth. But that’s ...

Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS ... possible because of the extremely careful curation of the Bennu sample from the moment the capsule landed.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.

The surface of Ryugu from Rover 1B’s camera. Source: JAXA Obtaining a sample from asteroid Ryugu was a triumph. Could this organic matter have come from the asteroid itself? In a word ...

The Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 ... and in November 2019 began the journey back to Earth, with the sample capsule eventually landing as planned in Woomera Prohibited Area ...