The OSIRIS-REx Bennu sample now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. In this image, you can see the specimen before the container was sealed. The sample’s official ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of ... But meteorites don't get the princess treatment that Bennu samples did ...

OSIRIS-REx is an acronym for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, ... Johnson Space Center also contains samples from the moon, meteorites, and orbital debris.

2.9K. Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

The AZ meteorite fell near the Costa Rican town of the same name, coincidentally also in 2019, and was donated to the Chicago Field Museum. As a CM2 carbonaceous chondrite, its composition is ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. ... The Revelstoke meteorite is in a group called CI chondrites.

A meteorite on Earth holds new evidence that asteroids do indeed mysteriously spit out pebbles, a new study finds. In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft discovered a strange new phenomenon when ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 ...

In 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid appeared to ...

OSIRIS-REx brought back samples from Bennu, while Hayabusa2 visited Ryugu. Both missions targeted dark, carbon-rich asteroids known to contain water-bearing minerals.