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.

NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx reached asteroid Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018. After surveying Bennu, NASA plans to collect samples and send them back to Earth. Digital Culture Tech Science Life Social Good ...

NASA is showing off its first asteroid samples delivered by spacecraft. They come from the asteroid Bennu, almost 60 million miles away. News. ... No samples will be coming back. More to Read ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Every movement of the spacecraft led to greater loss of Bennu’s dust, ... Dr. Connolly struggled to express what it meant to him that the mission had come back to Earth.

This spacecraft was launched all the way back in 2016, heading for an asteroid called Bennu with a clear purpose in mind: steal a part of it, and return it home so that humans can have a look.

The asteroid Bennu, as imaged by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. ... and if we hadn't fired the back-away thrusters, ... Apophis will come within 20,000 miles of Earth in 2029.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought back samples from the asteroid Bennu and, in a livestream earlier today, NASA scientists showed us what it found hanging out in the great vastness of the cosmos.

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.

That’s why scientists did not have a precise measurement of what was coming back; they estimated 250 grams, or about a cupful, ahead of the Sept. 24 landing in the Utah desert.

FILE – This undated image provided by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu seen from the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. On Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2023, ... No samples will be coming back. ___ ...

NASA is showing off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft. The ancient black dust and chunks are from the carbon-rich asteroid named Bennu, almost 60 million miles away.