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.

Nearly two years ago, NASA made history when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly “tagged” 101955 Bennu to collect a regolith sample from the surface of the asteroid. While the mission won’t ...

2.9K. Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

OSIRIS-REx also discovered that Bennu’s orbit is changing. A “day” on Bennu lasts a short 4 hours and 17.8 minutes. But that’s enough to heat up the asteroid’s dayside.

A sample of the asteroid 101955 Bennu was returned to Earth on Sunday by NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission.

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OSIRIS-REx launched seven years ago en route to the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu. This space rock is a carbonaceous asteroid with a diameter of about 1,610 feet (490 meters).

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Music legend Brian May has spoken about his role in the historic NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, ... The sample from an asteroid named 101955 Bennu was returned to Earth on Sept. 24,; ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth.

These amazing discoveries would not have been possible without NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission. ... Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu, ...