which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state of Utah on September 24, 2023. Its contents: 122 grams of dust and rock from asteroid Bennu. The probe had collected this sample from the ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

A sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has been found to contain ... Just two weeks after the sample was parachuted into the Utah desert, a small quantity of the material was unveiled by ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return ... touched down safely in the Utah desert at Dugway Proving Ground, bringing back the 120 grams of Bennu’s soil and subsoil to waiting ...

Some 4.5 billion years ago, a monster asteroid ... a 4.3-ounce Bennu sample—perfectly preserved within OSIRIS-REx’s nitrogen-filled glovebox—crash-landed in the Utah desert.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

It is scheduled to land in the Great Salt Lake Desert in Utah, the science outlet ... NASA Says Studying Bennu is imperative because the asteroid has a slim shot of eventually hitting Earth.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the ...

Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission , have revealed new findings about the origins of life and the early days of our solar system. The ...