In a discreet vacuumed-packed container inside a FedEx box lies a piece of ancient history; extremely ancient history.
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 ...
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 ...
It's been a while since America brought back its first-ever samples of an asteroid ... in the Utah desert. After being removed from the capsule (not without some issues), the sample landed ...
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.
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 ...