After last week’s extraordinary achievement of grabbing a sample of rock and dust from an asteroid speeding through space more than 200 million miles from Earth, NASA risked losing the collected ...

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 ...

The historic collection of a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday was almost too successful. While the spacecraft collected a subsantial sample ...

NASA says Bennu asteroid sample shows evidence of water, carbon 00:24. Rocks and soil collected from the asteroid Bennu and brought back to Earth last month by NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe are rich in ...

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 ...

Farewell, Bennu! NASA spacecraft leaves asteroid to bring pieces of space rock to Earth. ... And a mere 11 days later, the sample capsule of China's Chang'e 5 moon mission came down in Inner Mongolia.

Related: NASA's OSIRIS-REx lands samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth after historic 4-billion-mile journey The wrapped-up sample capsule, ready for shipment. (Image credit: NASA) ...

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 collected the samples three years ago from the surface of Bennu and then dropped them off sealed in a capsule during a flyby of Earth last month. Scientists ...

A small NASA spacecraft called 'OSIRIS-REx' landed on the surface of an asteroid called 'Bennu' in order to collect samples which will eventually be returned to Earth.

The Bennu samples were retrieved by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020. The robotic probe scraped 4.2 ounces of material from the asteroid and dropped them into Utah by parachute in a sealed ...

Planet Earth is about to receive a special delivery — the biggest sample yet from an asteroid.Video above: NASA predicts large asteroid could impact EarthA NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on ...