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The sample was secured after a tense few days following OSIRIS-REx’s October 20 touchdown on Bennu, which made the spacecraft only the third—and NASA’s first—to collect a sample from an ...
NASA predicts a large asteroid could impact Earth in the future, potentially affecting an area the size of Texas. Asteroid Bennu, passes by Earth roughly every six years, experts have been closely ...
NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...
The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...
Dante Lauretta, a professor at the University of Arizona and the OSIRIS-REx principal investigator, speaks at a press conference after a sample of Bennu had been transported to Earth. NASA/Keegan ...
OSIRIS-REx arrived at Bennu in late 2018 as NASA’s first—and humankind’s third—attempt to sample the surface of an asteroid.
Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...
Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...
Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely unexpected — not only does the asteroid contain the ...
It's time for our annual listener question show, where we find answers to your burning science questions like: is the asteroid belt an exploded planet? Why can't whales breathe under water? What ...
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 ...
The OSIRIS-APEX mission, a follow-up to OSIRIS-REx, which successfully returned a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023, has repurposed the spacecraft to visit a new target, asteroid Apophis.