A sizable crowd turned out to see a small rock as the Smithsonian debuted the first display of a piece of the asteroid Bennu from the sample recently brought back by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

Related: OSIRIS-REx: A complete guide to NASA's asteroid-sampling mission a bald man in a light-blue shirt stands in front of a glass display case holding a piece of an asteroid.

In this handout provided by NASA, the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, on September 24, 2023 at the Department of Defense's ...

OSIRIS-REx will depart Bennu in 2021 and deliver the sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023.

Last month, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spaceship dropped off a sample of dirt from the Bennu asteroid. Scientists have been studying it ever since. The black rocky regolith, or debris, contains carbon and ...

The mission, Osiris-Rex, concluded in September when a capsule containing the collection of asteroid samples re-entered through the Earth’s atmosphere and was recovered in the Utah desert.

The OSIRIS-REx mission used some pretty fascinating tech to autonomously acquire rocks and dust from an asteroid called Bennu. Asteroids can act as time capsules, and Bennu reflects what was ...

When OSIRIS-REx briefly used its TAGSAM, or Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism head, to disturb the surface of Bennu and collect a sample in October 2020, it gathered so much material that ...

Scientists confirm OSIRIS-REx brought home at least 70.3 grams of material from asteroid Bennu, surpassing its goal of 60 grams.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.