Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...
The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...
The outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector after its return to Earth. The crumbly black material ... [+] is from asteroid Bennu. Dark bits and pieces of a faraway space rock will go on display ...
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 unremarkable black dust-like sample from asteroid Bennu could help shed light on some of the biggest questions about how ...
A recent NASA mission successfully returned samples from the asteroid Bennu, marking the first time a US spacecraft has ...
When embarking on a space mission to an asteroid and successfully landing on it to collect a sample, there are many potential obstacles to overcome, but who would have thought opening a lid would ...
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range ...
Following a public unveiling of the United States’ first asteroid sample at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 11, NASA will host a media teleconference ...
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 ...
