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Following Tuesday's historic touchdown on the asteroid Bennu, NASA has released never-before-seen images of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft kicking up rocks and debris on the space rock's surface.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is not due to bring home samples from the asteroid Bennu until some time in 2023, but already it is turning up some fascinating discoveries about this distant world ...
Revelations from NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe are building excitement for its sampling expedition, slated to happen in the coming weeks. The near-Earth asteroid Bennu is a bit taller and wider than the ...
NASA’s asteroid-sampling spacecraft OSIRIS-REx just snapped its closest picture yet of Bennu, the deep-space rock it’s been hovering around since the end of last year. The high-resolution ...
NASA’s asteroid sampling OSIRIS-REx probe took a dive toward one of its sample collection sites and sent back a gorgeous image. The site is called … ...
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.
Queen legend Brian May and OSIRIS-Rex chief scientist Dante Lauretta cooperated on a book about asteroid Bennu. (Image credit: The University of Arizona Press/London Stereoscopic Company) ...
(An illustration of OSIRIS-REx in orbit around asteroid Bennu.NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab) An asteroid-sampling NASA spacecraft with a dinosaur-like name is scheduled ...
The spacecraft’s sampling head touched Bennu’s surface for approximately 6 seconds before retreating. By stirring up some of the dust and pebbles on the asteroid, OSIRIS-REx was able to grab a ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx recently dropped off a sample from asteroid Bennu, and now it will continue on to a new target: asteroid Apophis.
This image, taken on Oct. 22, 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx SamCam camera, shows that the spacecraft’s sampler head is full of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu—and ...
NASA's first asteroid-sampling mission OSIRIS-REx, ... "The mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on December 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of ...