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.
The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid. Scientists anticipate getting about a half ...
A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for ...
The sample of the space rock Bennu that OSIRIS-REx collected could unlock an ancient existential mystery Chris Klimek Host, "There's More to That" The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule (foreground ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission is NASAs first mission to collect samples from an asteroid in this case 101955 Bennu and return to ...
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REx – the first U.S. mission to return a sample collected from an asteroid – got its own postage stamp.Postage stamps ...
Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...
‘We're really lucky,’ says Dr Ashley King, a meteorite researcher at the Natural History Museum, who will be part of the team ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's Lucy spacecraft encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to Jupiter. The spacecraft on Wednesday swooped past the pint-sized Dinkinesh, about 300 ...
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A bit of dust is going to be exhibited in London’s Natural History Museum. Wait! Before you click away, this isn’t just any old bit of dust. This dust is a sample of an asteroid that contains ...
