Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

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 ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 evidence ...

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The asteroid was the subject of a historic NASA mission, OSIRIS-REx, which snagged a piece of Bennu in October 2020 and dropped it off on Earth in September 2023. The mission allowed scientists to ...

The NASA OSIRIS-REx mission scooped up the 4.3-ounce ... along with other elements and compounds on Bennu, suggest a watery past for the asteroid,” said co-lead study author Dante Lauretta ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter essential to life in dust and rock retrieved from an asteroid known as Bennu.