A NASA spacecraft that took a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles away now has a plan to come back home. On May 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will leave the near-Earth asteroid Bennu ...

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 ...

After nearly five years in space, a NASA spacecraft is nearing the end of its historic mission, beginning its journey home to Earth with a plethora of asteroid samples. NASA's Origins, Spectral ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled ...

OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft tasked with collecting rocks and dust from a nearby asteroid named Bennu, is coming back home after almost five years away. The spacecraft, officially named Origins ...

On October 20, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will briefly touchdown on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and attempt the agency’s first sample collection from an asteroid that will be returned to ...

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.

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's asteroid-sampling spacecraft OSIRIS-REx had a near-death experience at Bennu, according to the mission team.

Pictures from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show a sample collector pressed into the surface of the asteroid Bennu Tuesday stirred up a rocky blizzard of small fragments and soil, providing a rich ...

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