A sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has been found to contain ... Just two weeks after the sample was parachuted into the Utah desert, a small quantity of the material was unveiled by ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu ... the pristine asteroid sample returned to Earth, landing in the Utah desert in the United States.

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return ... touched down safely in the Utah desert at Dugway Proving Ground, bringing back the 120 grams of Bennu’s soil and subsoil to waiting ...

Some 4.5 billion years ago, a monster asteroid ... a 4.3-ounce Bennu sample—perfectly preserved within OSIRIS-REx’s nitrogen-filled glovebox—crash-landed in the Utah desert.

It is scheduled to land in the Great Salt Lake Desert in Utah, the science outlet ... NASA Says Studying Bennu is imperative because the asteroid has a slim shot of eventually hitting Earth.

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 after ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

a "handful" of dust and rock weighing just 250g from a nearby asteroid, Bennu. The capsule will enter the Earth's atmosphere before drifting to the ground in the Utah desert by parachute.

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

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 ...

FILE PHOTO: The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October ... after touching down in the desert at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range ...