NASA released a nicely produced documentary about the James Webb Space Telescope called "Cosmic Dawn: the Untold Story of the ...

For hundreds of millions of years, a top-shaped rubble pile called Bennu has orbited the sun in relative isolation. The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate ...

The spacecraft grabbed so much of the asteroid Bennu, its sample-collection device got jammed. Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the ...

(UPDATED AT 10:30 A.M.) UA scientists cheered Monday morning when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu, an important milestone in the UA-led mission. The spacecraft will now ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission made contact with the asteroid Bennu for about 4.7 seconds, roughly half as long as it took Neil Armstrong to announce his “one small step for ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is giving scientists an even better look at the ...

NASA’s sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu, Osiris-Rex, pulled off the same feat in 2020. China’s space agency has executed two successful sample return missions to the moon — in ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe and Japan's Hayabusa2 used it to snag samples of the asteroids Bennu and Ryugu, respectively. Tianwen 2 will depart Kamo'oalewa in April 2027, hauling the space rock ...

Closer to Earth, OSIRIS-APEX, strong from delivering the precious samples of asteroid Bennu, was going to meet the dangerous asteroid Apophis. The spacecraft is still traveling through space ...

3. Bennu – A Small Rock with Big Scientific Value Bennu is a small near-Earth asteroid – just about 500 metres in diameter – but it’s one of the most studied and scientifically valuable objects of its ...

The in-form Jack Mitchell retains the ride for the Simon and Ed Crisford team. Of the others, Bobby Bennu remains unexposed in handicaps, while Fair Point drops in class having run in Listed ...

Bennu, the asteroid sampled by OSIRIS-REx, had a diameter similar to the height of the Empire State Building, or 1,614 feet (492 meters). Kamoʻoalewa is a quasi-satellite, a type of near-Earth ...