Watch: NASA's OSIRIS-REx returns to Earth from the asteroid Bennu What is Bennu? First discovered in 1999, Bennu is believed to be part of a larger asteroid that collided with another space rock ...

After months of waiting, NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return container is unlocked — and the space agency has weighed the total Bennu sample.

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life. transcript NASA ...

SEE THE ASTEROID SAMPLE A NASA SPACECRAFT TOOK 7 YEARS TO BRING BACK TO EARTH. Scientists with NASA's OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Team published their early findings on the Bennu sample.

The mission, which launched on Sept. 8, 2016, targeting the primordial asteroid Bennu, believed to have remained largely unchanged since the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.

An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the ...

SEE THE ASTEROID SAMPLE A NASA SPACECRAFT TOOK 7 YEARS TO BRING BACK TO EARTH. Scientists with NASA's OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Team published their early findings on the Bennu sample.

The rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu hold amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth, NASA reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the conditions necessary ...

After a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its sample of rocks and dirt collected from the primitive asteroid last year in the desert of Utah.