About four hours later, the sample landed inside the Defense Department’s Utah Test and Training Range. The target landing zone was an area about the size of Rhode Island, about 80 miles from ...

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.

The Bennu sample has been estimated at 250 grams (8.8 ounces), far surpassing the 5 grams carried back from Ryugu in 2020 or the tiny specimen delivered from asteroid Itokawa in 2010.

Physicist Jennifer Inman has observed the aerodynamics of many spacecraft, including NASA’s space shuttles, as they launched and landed. But on 24 September she had the chance to study a rarity ...

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 ...

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

The OSIRIS-REx mission is NASA's first mission to collect samples from an asteroid - in this case 101955 Bennu - and return ...

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Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...

The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-APEX hovers over the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, using its thrusters to disturb ...

September 14, 2023 • Katrina Kmak and Elissa Aten from PC Reads joins to talk about the science of reading and how this basic human skill can have a positive effect on our minds, especially ...

NASA is in the final stages of preparation to send its first sample of asteroid material collected in space down to Earth. The material was collected by NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation ...