The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...

After months of struggling to get to the bulk of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample, the space agency has unveiled a treasure trove of ancient rocks and dust.

Bennu is a small, carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid that passes close to Earth about every six years. It was the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect an asteroid sample and bring it to Earth.

We now know exactly how much material OSIRIS-REx captured from its target asteroid Bennu — and, it's a lot. In addition to the 2.48 ounces (70.3 grams) of sample already collected from the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will unveil the first public display of a sample of Bennu—a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid—to museumgoers Friday, Nov. 3. The rocky fragment was ...

Scientists confirm OSIRIS-REx brought home at least 70.3 grams of material from asteroid Bennu, surpassing its goal of 60 grams. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Engineers and scientists from Johnson Space Center finally opened a container of asteroid sample material, ... The Bennu sample also contained about 4.7 percent carbon.

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 ...

The sample’s historic landing in the Utah desert September 24 marked the culmination of NASA’s 7-year OSIRIS-Rex mission, which traveled to Bennu some 200 million miles (320 million kilometers ...

When the spacecraft departed the roughly 1,600-foot-wide (500-meter) asteroid Bennu in 2020, engineers estimated the probe had gathered around 250 grams, or 8.8 ounces, of specimens from Bennu's ...