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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...