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Sample of 'potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu, which may contain the seeds of life, arrives in UK...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 months agoA sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's...
A treasure trove of pristine asteroid samples is arriving at Earth this weekend
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAfter 7 years in deep space, a NASA spacecraft is nearly home again with a delivery of precious...
Video shows landmark moment when sample of asteroid Bennu touches down on Earth
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoCelebrations erupted in the NASA control room as the capsule containing samples from the asteroid...
NASA's recovered Bennu asteroid samples show evidence of carbon, water
CBS News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRocks and soil collected from the asteroid Bennu and brought back to Earth last month by NASA's...
Fact Check: NASA Predicted Future Collision of ‘Large Asteroid’ With Earth?
Snopes via Yahoo News· 7 months agoNASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Claim: A NASA study predicted the future probability that a large...
Asteroid NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission landed on had a surface like a ‘pit of plastic balls’
Engadget· 2 years agoNearly two years ago, NASA made history when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly “tagged” 101955 Bennu...
Asteroid sample incoming: OSIRIS-REx team preps for September landing of Bennu bits
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoa close-up view of an asteroid in deep space LITTLETON, Colorado — As NASA's first mission to...
How asteroid Bennu caught NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft by surprise and nearly killed it along the...
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA mass of gravel and dirt ejected from the surface of asteroid Bennu by the touchdown of NASA's...
NASA recovers Bennu asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx's return to Earth
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA NASA spacecraft returned to Earth on Sunday after a years-long mission to a nearby asteroid. A...
NASA scientists calculated the exact date an asteroid could hit Earth with the force of at least 24...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAn asteroid Bennu, a city-killer sized cosmic object, has a 1/2700 chance of hitting us in...