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.

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 ...

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 ...