NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston has revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler head. On Jan ...

In January 2024, NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler ...

Last month, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spaceship dropped off a sample of dirt from the Bennu asteroid. Scientists have been studying it ever since. The black rocky regolith, or debris, contains carbon and ...

NASA has shared a high-resolution image of the asteroid Bennu sample inside the Touch-and-Go-Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), which remained closed because of stuck fasteners until last week.

The picture presented here is nowhere near as interesting as the detailed and very zoomable full-res download you can grab from NASA’s site, though. The first asteroid sample ever brought back ...

A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...

Even the brilliant minds at NASA sometimes have trouble opening up a tightly-sealed container. Engineers and scientists from Johnson Space Center finally opened a container of asteroid sample ...

Afterwards, the sample will be removed and weighed, and NASA will determine the full amount of rocky debris OSIRIS-REx snagged from Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in September 2016 and ...

NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston has revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler head. On Jan ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation engineer, Neftali Hernandez, attaches one of the tools developed to help remove two final fasteners that prohibited complete disassembly of the Touch-and-Go Sample ...