NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters. The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid ...

The sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

After a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its sample of rocks and dirt collected from the primitive asteroid last year in the desert of Utah.

In September 2023, NASA received an extraterrestrial delivery from its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it flew past Earth. It sent a capsule with the asteroid samples that were collected in 2020, ...

Last month, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spaceship dropped off a sample of dirt from the Bennu asteroid. Scientists have been studying it ever since. The black rocky regolith, or debris, contains carbon and ...

NASA's Osiris-REx mission has successfully returned a pristine sample of asteroid back to Earth. This cupful-or-so of space rock could shed light on the solar system's origins.

NASA’s first spacecraft to collect a sample from an asteroid will complete its 7-year mission later this year when OSIRIS-REx drops off some of asteroid Bennu in Utah.

The goal of the OSIRIS-REx sample collection was 60 grams of asteroid material. ... More: Brian May, best known as Queen's guitarist, helped NASA return its 1st asteroid sample to Earth.

We now know exactly how much material OSIRIS-REx captured from its target asteroid Bennu — and, it's a lot. In addition to the 2.48 ounces (70.3 grams) of sample already collected from the ...

The astromaterials curation team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston had collected 2.48 ounces (70.3 grams) of asteroid material from the return capsule, but were unable to access the bulk ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will unveil the first public display of a sample of Bennu—a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid—to museumgoers Friday, Nov. 3. The rocky fragment was ...