OSIRIS-REx fired braking rockets to slow its speed to match Bennu's. It orbited the asteroid and began a months-long survey in October 2020. Extensive mapping, from an altitude of about 3 miles ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is conducting a final flyby of the asteroid Bennu on Wednesday. The spacecraft made history when it briefly touched down on the asteroid on October 20, 2020, and ...

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.

What was OSIRIS-REx doing on Bennu? The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was launched Sept. 8, 2016, and traveled to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, formerly named 1999 RQ36. On Oct. 20, 2020, the spacecraft ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission created these images using false-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) composites of asteroid Bennu. A 2D map and spacecraft imagery were overlaid on a shape model of the asteroid ...

Bennu, discovered in 1999, ... Osiris-Rex launched in 2016 and arrived at Bennu a couple of years later, making observations at a distance. From those remote findings, ...

The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...

[NARRATOR]: The OSIRIS-REx timeline includes five years to design and build the instruments and spacecraft, two years to reach Bennu, a year and a half mapping and studying the asteroid before ...

When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft closely approached Bennu three years ago, it extended a Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism head, or TAGSAM, toward the asteroid and fired a blast of nitrogen gas.

It’s only been about a week since NASA successfully inserted its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe into orbit around the large space rock known as Bennu, after … ...

A NASA spacecraft is conducting a final flyby of the asteroid Bennu on Wednesday, capturing images of the asteroid’s surface from just 2.3 miles away. OSIRIS-REx’s images should reveal the ...