Earlier this month, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team managed to crack open the TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) head after developing new tools to deal with two stuck fasteners that ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation engineer, Neftali Hernandez, attaches one of the tools developed to help remove two final fasteners that prohibited complete disassembly of the Touch-and-Go 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 ...

The sample, NASA’s treasure chest from a seven-year mission that traveled 3.9 billion miles to the asteroid Bennu and back, reached the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Sept. 25.

NASA has been struggling to open the canister containing rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu ever since the container landed on Earth. The space agency now anticipates that the asteroid ...

NASA recently brought its first sample back from an asteroid, with the OSIRIS-REx mission dropping off a sample from asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert.The goal of the mission was to collect at ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returned to Earth last month, dropping off NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample in the Utah desert, where it was rushed away to a secure NASA facility to be opened and then ...

Your Wednesday afternoon news roundup (11/1/2023) 02:13 BALTIMORE -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will open the first public display of the Bennu asteroid sample on November 3.

How much material came back from Bennu? Scientists are still not sure how much material was grabbed from the asteroid. That’s because the main sample chamber has yet to be opened, officials said.