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Do you want to throw the perfect OSIRIS-REx watch party, but you don’t know what snacks to serve? University of Arizona executive chef Michael Omo has you covered with a full menu of “O-Rex ...

For answers, scientists are looking beyond Earth to primitive asteroids like Bennu, the target of NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx sample return mission. OSIRIS-REx gathered pristine material from Bennu in ...

As part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, the spacecraft not only ... possibly sharing similarities to the most primitive group of meteorites on Earth, known as carbonaceous chondrites.

“We now have the results of two missions to primitive carbon-rich celestial bodies: Hayabusa2 to the asteroid Ryugu and OSIRIS-REx to Bennu,” she says. The Japanese probe Hayabusa2 brought ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaving the surface of asteroid Bennu after collecting a sample. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab/SVS Despite its possible history of interaction with ...

NASA's OSIRIS ... OSIRIS-REx project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Despite its potential interaction with water, Bennu remains a chemically primitive ...

After a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its sample of rocks and dirt collected from the primitive asteroid last year in the desert of Utah. It ...

Magnesium-sodium phosphate found in NASA's OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample suggests Bennu, seen above, could have originated from an ancient, primitive ocean world. Credit: NASA What the team found was ...