A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for ...

Capturing a piece of an asteroid and bringing it to Earth is even more difficult than it is time-consuming. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...

The spacecraft arrived at the asteroid in 2018, surveyed the rock for an ideal collection site and ultimately took its sample in 2020. The spacecraft traveled billions of miles to and from Bennu ...

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...

"That was as much as 200 million miles away at one point. Yeah, now it's only like 20 miles from my house." WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was business as usual at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

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.

A recent NASA mission successfully returned samples from the asteroid Bennu, marking the first time a US spacecraft has ...

Special offer: Complimentary Access to PopSci+ for a limited time » NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped the samples off from the carbon-rich space rock. By Laura Baisas | Published Nov 6, 2023 ...

Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...

OSIRIS-APEX (the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx) is about to face its first test in its extended mission to asteroid ...

The sample was scooped up from the surface of 500m-wide asteroid Bennu in 2020 by Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, and then ...