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Take a look at the full asteroid Bennu sample in all its glory
NASA has shared a high-resolution image of the asteroid Bennu sample inside the Touch-and-Go-Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), which remained closed because of stuck fasteners until last week. The mission obtained an abundance of material.
Cheyenne MacDonald01.20.2024
NASA finally got the stuck lid off its asteroid Bennu sample container
NASA says it's finally removed two fasteners that were keeping it from getting to the asteroid Bennu sample. The sample is housed in a Touch-and-Go-Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), which itself is being protected in a glovebox.
Cheyenne MacDonald01.13.2024
Here's what NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu
NASA launched the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx to take samples from an asteroid. Now it’s back and the space agency is going to show us what it found, likely metals.
Lawrence Bonk10.11.2023
Watch NASA reveal its Bennu asteroid samples at 11AM ET
A livestream is taking place on its Youtube channel.
Sarah Fielding10.11.2023NASA will reveal what OSIRIS-REx brought back from asteroid Bennu on Wednesday
NASA has a livestream planned for 11 AM ET on Wednesday, October 11 to reveal the sample its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from asteroid Bennu.
Cheyenne MacDonald10.06.2023
OSIRIS-REx used a Tesla-esque navigation system to capture 4.5 billion-year-old regolith
NASA's novel sampler spacecraft relied on complex visual maps and inertial meters to figure its relation to the asteroid Bennu.
Andrew Tarantola09.25.2023
NASA's OSIRIS-REx successfully delivers asteroid samples back to Earth
Seven years ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched to collect asteroid samples from the near-Earth object Bennu. Today, the samples made landfall on Earth, closing a long-awaited chapter for the mission.
Malak Saleh09.25.2023
Asteroid NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission landed on had a surface like a ‘pit of plastic balls’
Bennu turned out nothing like scientists had expected.
Igor Bonifacic07.10.2022
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe begins its two-year journey back to Earth
On May 10th at 4:23 PM Eastern, OSIRIS—REx bid asteroid Bennu farewell to begin its 1.4-billion-mile journey back to our planet.
Mariella Moon05.11.2021
NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx probe will head back to Earth in May
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will soon bid asteroid Bennu farewell. NASA has announced that OSIRIS-REx will start its journey back to our planet on May 10th, two-and-a-half years after it rendezvoused with the near-Earth asteroid. The agency launched the spacecraft back in 2016 to collect samples from Bennu in hopes that analyzing the materials could give us more insight into the formation of the Solar System and into the beginning of life here on Earth.
Mariella Moon01.27.2021
NASA confirms OSIRIS-REx has secured its asteroid sample
After a process that took a couple of days, the OSIRIS-REx mission has stowed away the sample of regolith that it snatched from an asteroid last week.
Richard Lawler10.29.2020
NASA will try to stow away its leaking asteroid sample tomorrow
Last week the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft grabbed material from the surface of an asteroid, but scientists report it grabbed so much that the collector head seems to be leaking small particles. Today NASA announced it’s moving up plans to secure what it grabbed. Tomorrow, the OSIRIS-REx mission will begin the process to stow its abundant sample of asteroid Bennu.
Richard Lawler10.26.2020
NASA works to secure the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample
NASA's asteroid heist has hit a curveball -- it collected so much material some may be leaking out of the collection device. It's canceled some planned maneuvers in order to secure the regolith as quickly as possible.
Richard Lawler10.23.2020NASA shares first images from OSIRIS-REx's touchdown on Bennu
Watch NASA's historic Bennu touch-and-go from the perspective of the craft that completed the maneuver.
Igor Bonifacic10.21.2020NASA's OSIRIS-REx successfully collected bits of an orbiting asteroid
NASA made history on Tuesday afternoon as its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully “tagged” the asteroid, 101955 Bennu, and in doing so collected a small sample of regolith from the passing celestial body’s surface.
Andrew Tarantola10.20.2020
OSIRIS-REx will attempt its first asteroid sample collection next month
NASA's OSIRIS-REx will touch down on asteroid Bennu to collect space rocks on October 20th.
Christine Fisher09.25.2020
Scientists propose tethering asteroids to prevent Earth impacts
Scientists have proposed tethering asteroids together to prevent them from hitting Earth -- and without creating fragments.
Jon Fingas06.21.2020
See every square foot of asteroid Bennu, Earth's little frenemy
Bennu has the distinction of being the subject of the highest resolution mosaic ever made of any planetary body.
Steve Dent04.07.2020
NASA hopes OSIRIS-REx data will explain an asteroid's mini-eruptions
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a startling discovery shortly after arriving at its target, a 1614-foot-wide rock called Bennu: the asteroid was ejecting particles from its surface. While that's common behavior on icy comets, it's much rarer on asteroids. The phenomenon has stumped scientists, but NASA has now offered a few explanations based on observations by OSIRIS-REx and hopes that a sample collected next year will offer a more definitive answer.
Steve Dent12.09.2019
NASA reveals Bennu asteroid is spewing particles into space
An asteroid slightly wider than the Empire State Building has confused scientists by shooting out plumes of dust, as a new set of close-up images from NASA shows. Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid that NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has been observing since December 31st, is already confounding scientists in a variety of ways.
Amrita Khalid03.20.2019