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Smithsonian unveils a very small sample of the 4.5-billion-year-old Bennu asteroid
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA sample of Asteroid Bennu is put on public display for the first time at the Museum of Natural...
NASA scientists calculated the exact date an asteroid could hit Earth with the force of at least 24...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAn asteroid Bennu, a city-killer sized cosmic object, has a 1/2700 chance of hitting us in...
NASA's recovered Bennu asteroid samples show evidence of carbon, water
CBS News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoRocks and soil collected from the asteroid Bennu and brought back to Earth last month by NASA's...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases asteroid sample capsule toward Earth in flyby, heads to...
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA cone-shaped capsule flies through space just above Earth's atmosphere. Update for 11 a.m. EDT:...
An asteroid sample is about to land on Earth. Here’s what to expect
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOn Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu,...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission almost bit the dust — then Queen guitarist Brian May stepped in
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAn artist's illustration of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft poised to land on the asteroid Bennu. On Sept....
‘The impossible became possible’: 4 billion miles later, NASA successfully lands asteroid sample...
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA capsule of material from the Bennu asteroid successfully landed in the desert near Dugway, Utah,...
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...
NASA's first asteroid-return sample is a goldmine of life-sustaining materials
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector, with material from the asteroid Bennu in...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return needs an awesome soundtrack. Here's how you can submit your...
Space via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA cone-shaped capsule flies through space just above Earth's atmosphere. NASA's first asteroid...