In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

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NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Smartphone shipments in India recovered in Q3 2020, posting 8 per cent growth to 50 million units (from 46.2 million units in year-ago period). The mission's primary goal is to obtain a sample of at ...

From an orbit of over 186,000 miles from Earth, to Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, to College Hill: That’s the path that samples from the asteroid Bennu, ...

In 2020, a NASA spacecraft retrieved samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped them off on Earth in 2023. The space agency followed similar protocols to JAXA to protect the asteroid material ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon, no one could anticipate the profound changes that happened next.

Radiation is a primary concern for long-duration human spaceflight, such as the planned trips to Mars, which are the stated ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned asteroid samples, enabling a vast observation campaign that provided new insights into ...

From oceans found on distant planets to a detailed map of a fly’s brain, these findings deepened our understanding of the ...

Nasa likely has less asteroid Bennu material than first thought, but it still has plenty to analyse. Tiny pieces of rock and dust from the object known as Bennu come to British labs for study.