NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters. The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid ...

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 spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert. CNN values your feedback 1.

Last month, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spaceship dropped off a sample of dirt from the Bennu asteroid. Scientists have been studying it ever since. The black rocky regolith, or debris, contains carbon and ...

The first asteroid samples acquired by NASA from deep space contain double the amount of material scientists were expecting to get, according to a press release. "The OSIRIS-REx sample is the ...

NASA scientists successfully brought an asteroid sample back to Earth in September, making them the first U.S. space agency to do so. All they have to do now is figure out how to open the Touch ...

After months of waiting, NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return container is unlocked — and the space agency has weighed the total Bennu sample.

NASA’s asteroid sample could have come from small ocean world, experts believe By . Emilee Speck, FOX Weather. Published July 1, 2024, 2:00 p.m. ET. Originally Published by: ...

The astromaterials curation team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston had collected 2.48 ounces (70.3 grams) of asteroid material from the return capsule, but were unable to access the bulk ...

NASA’s first spacecraft to collect a sample from an asteroid will complete its 7-year mission later this year when OSIRIS-REx drops off some of asteroid Bennu in Utah.

Researchers have been carefully analyzing tiny particles of the 4.3 ounce sample, working out what it is composed of and, from that data, revealing information about the asteroid it came from.

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 studied.