In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

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

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in 2020. The findings “bolster the hypothesis that asteroids like Bennu could have delivered the raw ...

The study is based on the latest orbital projections of asteroid 101955 Bennu, a 500-meter-wide near-Earth object (NEO) that NASA and other space agencies have closely tracked. Bennu follows an orbit ...

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu, a large near-Earth asteroid that NASA ranks as one of the biggest potential impact threats we know ...

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu, a large near-Earth asteroid that NASA ranks as one of the biggest potential impact threats we know ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023 -- the largest sample ever returned to Earth. Now, an international team of OSIRIS-REx ...

Most recently, researchers have started analyzing materials returned from asteroid 101955 Bennu, and presented their initial findings at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands ...

hereinafter "Rigaku"), has completed analysis of particles from 101955 Bennu, a near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid classified as a type B. The analysis was performed using ZSX Primus IV, a ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission, which successfully collected 4.29 ounces (121.6 grams) of material from asteroid 101955 Bennu, has provided the largest asteroid sample ever brought back to Earth. This ...