Tiny pieces of rock and dust from the object known as Bennu come to British labs for study.

The unremarkable black dust-like sample from asteroid Bennu could help shed light on some of the biggest questions about how ...

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...

The outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector after its return to Earth. The crumbly black material ... [+] is from asteroid Bennu. Dark bits and pieces of a faraway space rock will go on display ...

Scientists are preparing to decipher the ancient cosmic secrets preserved within the rocky extraterrestrial grains.

"That was as much as 200 million miles away at one point. Yeah, now it's only like 20 miles from my house." WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was business as usual at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

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.

A recent NASA mission successfully returned samples from the asteroid Bennu, marking the first time a US spacecraft has ...

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range ...

Following a public unveiling of the United States’ first asteroid sample at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 11, NASA will host a media teleconference ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission unveiled evidence of the "building blocks of life on Earth" after collecting samples from asteroid ...

A tiny piece of the space rock made its public debut at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, as scientists study the rest of the sample ...