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How NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will help protect Earth against asteroid Bennu and its flyby in 2182
Space via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAsteroid Bennu is the space rock with the highest known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200...
A treasure trove of pristine asteroid samples is arriving at Earth this weekend
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 9 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...
How asteroid Bennu caught NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft by surprise and nearly killed it along the...
Space via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA mass of gravel and dirt ejected from the surface of asteroid Bennu by the touchdown of NASA's...
NASA finally pries open stuck Bennu asteroid sampler
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation engineer, Neftali Hernandez, attaches one of the tools developed to help remove two final fasteners that prohibited complete...
Photos show the 3.86 billion-mile journey of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission from start to...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 8 months agoArtist's illustration of NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe sampling an asteroid.Lockheed Martin NASA's...
The dusty origins of life? NASA reveals first look at asteroid sample
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNASA scientists discover captured water and carbon-rich materials, the building blocks of life, in...
Queen guitarist Brian May to release a book of 3D images of asteroid Bennu
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoQueen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is about to release a book of 3D photographs of the...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx lands samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth after historic 4-billion-mile journey
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA space capsule sits on Earth as people cheer in an inset. DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah — NASA's...
NASA grabbed a whopping 120 grams of rubble from asteroid Bennu, and it may contain the seeds of...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNASA's final tally shows that OSIRIS-REx collected roughly 4 ounces of material from asteroid Bennu....