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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on the asteroid Bennu after more than two years of flight and is sending home some incredible travel photographs. This week, “super resolution ...
At the Natural History Museum in London, Professor Sara Russell has been comparing the isotopic "fingerprint" of Earth's water with water found in the asteroid Bennu, captured and brought back by the ...
REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2182.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission brought pieces of space rock Bennu to Earth in 2023. An analysis of these samples has revealed interesting data.
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex team has discovered evidence in its asteroid sample rocks suggesting Bennu was once part of an ancient ocean world.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have been analyzing it ever since. International scientific teams have ...
On Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx return capsule parachuted down to a Utah desert. NASA researchers immediately stored the pristine Bennu samples in nitrogen so that they would not react with ...
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, was taken on December 2, 2018 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. Organic samples returned from Bennu contain the building blocks of life on ...
Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2182.