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NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

NASA's Worm logo is displayed in front of the agency's headquarters in Washington.Credit: NASA Two NASA employees are being honored as part of the ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic ... but a real extraterrestrial emissary that parachuted to a soft landing there in September ...

The mission marked NASA's first attempt to land on an asteroid and return a sample of one of these curious bodies back to Earth. Bennu orbits the Sun every 436.6 days. It is a rare, B-type ...

NASA's final tally shows that OSIRIS-REx collected roughly 4 ounces (120 grams) of material from asteroid Bennu. The sample collected from the "potentially hazardous" asteroid is thought to ...

A handful of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu will be on its way to NASA’s Johnson Space Center today after landing in a remote stretch of Utah desert early Sunday morning, and the OSIRIS-REx ...

NASA has finally opened the OSIRIS-REx sample containers with asteroid Bennu's samples. Several months after OSIRIS-REx's sample container arrived on the planet, it is only now that scientists and ...

How NASA Captured Asteroid Dust to Find ... and began orbiting the skyscraper-sized asteroid Bennu on December 31, 2018. On October 20, 2020, it made a brief landing on Bennu’s surface to ...