In an October update, NASA officials explained that the top of the canister, which has been previously estimated to hold ...

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu was a smashing success. The spacecraft delivered its ...

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for ...

The sample of the space rock Bennu that OSIRIS-REx collected could unlock an ancient existential mystery Chris Klimek Host, "There's More to That" The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule (foreground ...

The star is Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation Orion. The asteroid is Leona, a slowly rotating, oblong space ...

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Rocks and soil collected from the asteroid Bennu and brought back to Earth last month by NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe are rich in carbon and contain water-bearing clay minerals that date back to the birth ...

‘We're really lucky,’ says Dr Ashley King, a meteorite researcher at the Natural History Museum, who will be part of the team ...