A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...

OSIRIS-REx watched its asteroid sample capsule head toward Earth (photos) — Dramatic sampling shows asteroid Bennu is nothing like scientists expected — After NASA's epic OSIRIS-REx capsule ...

Two tight fasteners kept the majority of the Bennu asteroid sample from scientists since ... 24 after it hurtled back to Earth aboard the OSIRIS-REx capsule at speeds of up to 27,000 miles per ...

The capsule, roughly the size of a large truck ... [Read more: Utah right place to land the Bennu asteroid sample, NASA OSIRIS-REx leaders say] After mapping the asteroid using technology ...

Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped ...

The mission traveled 3.86 billion miles total to Bennu and back. The spacecraft dropped the sample capsule — containing an estimated 8.8 ounces of asteroid rocks and soil — from a distance of ...

Bennu, the asteroid from which OSIRIS-REx collected its sample, is thought to be made up of material that is around 4.5 billion years old, making it a potential time capsule from the earliest ...

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ... 11 after it hurtled back to Earth aboard the OSIRIS-REx capsule at speeds of up to 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h).

On September 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule to Earth containing pristine carbonaceous regolith collected from the near-Earth asteroid ... a sample of Bennu's regolith ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A sample from a primitive asteroid that ... NASA on Wednesday revealed the rubble -- collected from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and delivered to ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.