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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The samples won’t make it back until 2023, seven years after the spacecraft rocketed away from Cape Canaveral. Osiris-Rex will keep drifting away from Bennu and will not orbit it again, as it ...