OSIRUS-REx − an unmanned, solar-powered spacecraft about the size of a household toolshed − traveled 4.4 billion miles over the past seven years to bring back samples from Bennu. On September ...

Two Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft returned small samples ... kicking off extended observations. But the Bennu samples coming back to Earth Sunday are the center of attention, and Lauretta can ...

Tumbling and falling through space, Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid ... A journey of a billion miles to asteroid Bennu and back, has come to an end. [APPLAUSE] And you can see now the SRC.

It took about two years to reach Bennu. Once there, the spacecraft stayed for another ... It's been a year and a half of coming back," said Tom Statler, NASA Program Scientist.

Scientists are still not sure how much was grabbed from the carbon-rich asteroid named Bennu ... space. That’s why scientists did not have a precise measurement of what was coming back; they ...

Debris kicked up from Bennu when the Osiris-Rex spacecraft punched it with a sampling ... what it meant to him that the mission had come back to Earth. “I feel like a little kid again, ...

NASA's asteroid-sampling spacecraft had a near-death experience at Bennu, according to the mission ... is safely on its way back to our planet to deliver its precious cargo, scientists are digging ...

Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already ... from NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Campins said to expect much more research and discoveries to come from the sample now that ...

The sample, collected as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission, is the US space ... in the coming weeks and months, and to begin analysing them and see what secrets asteroid Bennu holds Dr Sarah ...

6, 2016 depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-And-Go ... not have a precise measurement of what was coming back; they estimated 250 grams, or about a ...