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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 OSIRIS-REx mission to scoop up a piece of an asteroid and send it back to Earth is about to rendezvous with its target.. After a two-year journey through the solar system, the spacecraft ...

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 ...

The OSIRIS-REx reached the asteroid Bennu in 2018 and will come back to Earth in 2023 A NASA spacecraft that's spent the last few years collecting soil samples from a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid ...

After collecting a piece of Bennu, which is a significant target because there's a slight chance the asteroid could impact Earth in the 22nd century, the spacecraft will then deliver it back to ...

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 ...