For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 grams. NASA's Osiris-Rex probe has brought a total of 121.6 grams of ...

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid ... To avoid contamination, the sample container was taken to a clean room before being opened. The researchers behind ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous ... sodium carbonate salts highlighted in purple. The Bennu sample container. Credit: NASA "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples ...

Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier this week, were worried after a rock wedged open the door of a container. This meant that samples were spilling out from the craft.

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016. The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the grayish, ...