Scientists have taken their first glimpse of a sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu — and stumbled upon a good bit more than they expected. When they opened the canister ...

Following a nearly three-year journey through space, the canister containing samples from asteroid Bennu has finally been opened. The OSIRIS-REx mission team removed the initial lid of the sample ...

Scientists working to open up the sample canister containing rock and dust from asteroid Bennu have run into a problem: there’s just too much of it. The process of disassembling the TAGSAM ...

NASA NASA reveals contents of asteroid sample canister whose lid was stuck NASA's OSIRIS-REx harvested samples from asteroid Bennu is Octoer 2020 ...

NASA has succeeded in returning its first sample of an asteroid to Earth, as the OSIRIS-REx mission released its capsule containing a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu early this morning. The ...

Late last year, a spacecraft containing samples of 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu landed safely in the desert after a 1.2-billion mile journey. There was only one little problem: NASA couldn ...

NASA’s first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system ...

NASA's first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and ...

NASA's first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and ...