"That was as much as 200 million miles away at one point. Yeah, now it's only like 20 miles from my house." WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was business as usual at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...
In late September, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered bits of rock and dust collected from a distant asteroid to Earth—the first sample of its kind brought to the United States. Now, the ...
NASA has provided asteroid Bennu samples to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London, for an in-depth analysis ...
Capturing a piece of an asteroid and bringing it to Earth is even more difficult than it is time-consuming. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...
The unremarkable black dust-like sample from asteroid Bennu could help shed light on some of the biggest questions about how ...
The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...
Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...
For quite a while, an asteroid named Phaethon has presented astronomers with something of a conundrum.
A recent NASA mission successfully returned samples from the asteroid Bennu, marking the first time a US spacecraft has ...
The sample was scooped up from the surface of 500m-wide asteroid Bennu in 2020 by Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, and then ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.
