NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its sample of rocks and dirt collected from the primitive asteroid last year in the desert of Utah. It took a while to remove the lid from the sample ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its sample of rocks and dirt collected from the primitive asteroid last year in the desert of Utah. It took a while to remove the lid from the sample ...

It was the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect an asteroid sample and bring it to Earth. The spacecraft returned to Earth last fall, landing in Utah, with approximately 120 grams of ...

After an extremely long journey from asteroid Bennu and a complicated ... to Earth — and landed it in the Utah desert in 2023. A first look at the sample revealed some intriguing findings ...

An early analysis of a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu suggests that the space rock had an unexpectedly water-rich past — and it may have even splintered off from an ancient ocean world.

Early analysis of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed dust rich in carbon, nitrogen, and organic compounds, all of which are essential components for life ...

The largest sample returned from an asteroid could contain insights into our solar system's past and the origin of life on Earth. On September 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a ...

‘TOUCHDOWN’: NASA'S ASTEROID SAMPLE COMES BLASTING DOWN TO EARTH, LANDING IN UTAH "The presence and state of phosphates, along with other elements and compounds on Bennu, suggest a watery past ...