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2.9K. Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned triumphantly to Earth in 2023 after collecting 4.3 ounces (121.6 grams) of precious grains of dust and rock from the asteroid Bennu in 2020. While that sample ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has unveiled discoveries from the analysis of samples collected from asteroid Bennu that shed new light on the potential origins of life in our solar system.

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space rock Bennu.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. CNN values your feedback 1.

For an OSIRIS-REx probe that launched from Earth, collected asteroid samples, and returned home again all in the span of less than a decade, it's an accomplishment up there with the most ambitious ...