A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for ...
The sample was scooped up from the surface of 500m-wide asteroid Bennu in 2020 by Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, and then ...
"That was as much as 200 million miles away at one point. Yeah, now it's only like 20 miles from my house." WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was business as usual at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.
The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...
A tiny piece of the space rock made its public debut at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, as scientists study the rest of the sample ...
A recent NASA mission successfully returned samples from the asteroid Bennu, marking the first time a US spacecraft has ...
NASA has provided asteroid Bennu samples to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London, for an in-depth analysis ...
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Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...
OSIRIS-APEX (the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx) is about to face its first test in its extended mission to asteroid ...
