Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the building […]
OSIRIS-REx
OSIRIS-REx sample capsule safely touches down with NASA’s first asteroid sample
Following a rapid and red-hot descent through Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touched down in the desert at 8:52 a.m. MT on September 24th, returning NASA’s first-ever, asteroid […]