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.

NASA's OSIRIS REx mission cost $1.16 billion for just under 9 ounces of asteroid dust. But it's hardly the most expensive material in science. Here's where it ranks.

In December, 16 years after kneeling over a meteorite in Antarctica, and 14 years after the fateful call from Michael Drake, OSIRIS-REx had arrived at asteroid Bennu. Preparations began for the ...

Osiris-Rex launched in 2016, embarking on a roundabout series of fuel-efficient loops before arriving at Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018. ... Never miss a rocket launch, meteor shower, ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The OSIRIS-REx team initially expected the probe to scoop up fine-grained sand, like the Japanese space agency encountered on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005. But Bennu’s surface wasn’t like that.

“From OSIRIS-REx we know that these particle ejection events are much more frequent than these high-velocity impacts,” said Heck, “so they probably play a more important role in determining the makeup ...