From 200 million miles away, NASA and its engineering partner, Lockheed Martin, instructed the Osiris-Rex spacecraft to descend to the surface of a space rock called Bennu, touching it for just ...

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples from asteroid Bennu's surface in 2020, forces measured during the interaction provided scientists with a direct test of the poorly understood ...

The American space agency Nasa landed the materials in a capsule that came down in the West Desert of Utah state. The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the ...

Last week, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft pulled off a feat that it had never attempted before. After spending months orbiting the space rock known as Bennu, the probe touched down on the asteroid ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NASA is finally ready to command its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe to grab a sample of the space rock Bennu. The maneuver will be performed this evening, and NASA will live stream the operation.

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Early analysis conducted at Nasa - assisted by Dr King - showed the black, extra-terrestrial Bennu material to be full of carbon and water-laden minerals. That's a great sign. There's a theory ...

A space capsule from NASA’s Osiris-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu landed in Utah on Sunday. The sample of rocks and dust—the largest ever collected from an asteroid—could help scientists ...

HOPES of finding traces of alien life in the universe have been scuppered yet again. And this time on asteroid Ryugu, a space ...

American space agency NASA announced it has selected SpaceX to launch the Dragonfly mission to Titan closer to the end of the ...