The asteroid Bennu, as imaged by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Bennu is a B-type asteroid that measures about 1,500 feet across and orbits the sun at an average distance of 105 million miles.

NASA mission to asteroid returning to Earth with a sample 05:53. A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu — leftovers from the ...

The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. (Photo Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber) Japan is the only other country to get samples from an asteroid.

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid.

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule ...

A capsule containing samples from Bennu separated from the OSIRIS-REx and entered Earth's atmosphere Sept. 23. The capsule then parachuted into the Utah Test and Training Range in Utah's West ...

A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing out a seven-year quest.

On Wednesday (Jan. 10), NASA technicians finally removed the stuck fasteners from the sample return capsule of its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft — which completed the first asteroid sample return ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday. The samples were gathered by NASA's ...

A new book tells the story of the mastermind who directed NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx mission Diane Tedeschi Initially, your entire group was responsible for selecting the landing site. Ultimately, you ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday. The samples were gathered by NASA's ...