OSIRIS-APEX was meant to spend 18 months mapping the asteroid’s surface and analyzing its chemical makeup during a rendezvous with Apophis in June 2029 after the asteroid has a close encounter with ...

A portion of the asteroid Bennu sample delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, set into a microscope slide at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Molly ...

SALT LAKE CITY — After examining just 0.06% of a 120-gram material sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu — which returned to Earth in Utah's west desert in September 2023 — a group of ...

You can zoom in on photos posted to the NASA website to see more detail.. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized craft visited Bennu, scraped and collected material from the asteroid’s surface and sealed it ...

Two years after its launch, in August of 2018, the OSIRIS-REx got its first glimpse of Bennu. The spacecraft snapped a grainy photo of the asteroid from 1.4 million miles away and sent it back to ...

Brian May, best known as Queen's founding guitarist, is also an astrophysicist who helped NASA return its first-ever asteroid sample to Earth.

The asteroid Bennu could one day collide with Earth – and is a time capsule from the Solar System's early days. Nasa's Osiris-Rex mission has captured it in stunning detail.

A space capsule from NASA’s Osiris-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu landed in Utah on Sunday. The sample of rocks and dust—the largest ever collected from an asteroid—could help scientists ...

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.

This afternoon, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will grab a small sample of rocks from the surface of an asteroid named Bennu zooming through space more than 200 million miles from Earth.

From there, it orbited Bennu, analyzing its surface to determine potential collection sites for the sample needed. The spacecraft eventually landed on the asteroid on October 20, 2020, and ...

A near-Earth asteroid named Bennu has a loosely packed surface similar to a pit of plastic balls, according to NASA scientists. A spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid in October 2020 ...