Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...
Images taken by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reveal heating from our star causes aligned cracks in the surface of the asteroid. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston has revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler head. On Jan. 10 ...
Asteroid Bennu has gone from a dark speck in telescope images to a kind of time capsule, carrying intact chemistry from the ...
Announced on Friday, the images are the latest milestone in an ambitious attempt to study the asteroid in detail and, hopefully, to bring back samples from its surface. The five images were captured ...
Who doesn’t love showing off their collection of cool rocks? NASA was finally able to get into the asteroid Bennu sample container last week after struggling with it for a couple of months, and now, ...
NASA has released images taken by navigation camera's (NavCam 2) field of view on October 20 when OSIRIS-Rex touched and took samples from the surface of asteroid Bennu, as reported by SciTech Daily.
These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...