A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of ...

also joined the effort to reobtain the samples. McKeegan said that the logbooks for the UCLA Meteorite Museum reflected that the rocks were a part of the UCLA collection, and it seemed that they ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ShaVi Lewis Dies: ...

OSIRIS-REx returned Bennu samples to Earth in 2023, helping scientists uncover secrets about the origins of life.

The asteroid Bennu has been at the centre of scientific discussions recently, especially after researchers analysed surface samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. While much of the ...

GIGAZINE A paper published in January 2025 in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Astronomy analyzed the organic molecules in samples from Bennu. Bennu is believed to be an object that has ...

Bennu, one of the largest asteroids, has been the subject of research and simulations in the event of an impact with our planet. Bennu is 500 meters wide and astronomers have predicted a one in ...

and then brought that sample back to Earth for a landing in the Utah desert in September 2023. While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, successfully collected 120 grams of samples from Bennu in 2020 and delivered them to Earth in September 2023. Scientists have since been analyzing ...

Weighing a little over four ounces—roughly a bar of soap—the collection of asteroid pebbles and dust ... A global coalition is still analyzing Bennu’s samples to learn more about the early solar ...