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This asteroid is one of the most likely to hit Earth. Here’s what it means for our future.
OSIRIS-REx arrived at Bennu in late 2018 as NASA’s first—and humankind’s third—attempt to sample the surface of an asteroid. The spacecraft, which snatched a dusty, pebbly sample in ...
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NASA brought back samples from asteroid Bennu. They revealed clues about the possible origins of life.
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...
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Space rock from asteroid Bennu arrives at Chicago Field Museum for rare study
The Field Museum received a rare, pristine sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA — a "time capsule" from the early solar system, ...
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx secures asteroid sample after surprise leak
The spacecraft grabbed so much of the asteroid Bennu, its sample-collection device got jammed. Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the ...
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NASA’s asteroid sample could have come from small ocean world, experts believe
NASA’s first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system ...
Scientists Are Getting Closer to Finding Evidence of the Fifth Force
One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...
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NASA Plucked an Asteroid From Space. Now Researchers at the Field Will Probe It for Signs of the Origin of Life
A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...
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NASA finds 'key to life' in Bennu asteroid samples
Jan. 29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday. The samples were gathered by NASA's ...