REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

OSIRIS-REx fired braking rockets to slow its speed to match Bennu's. It orbited the asteroid and began a months-long survey in October 2020. Extensive mapping, from an altitude of about 3 miles ...

OSIRIS-REx fired braking rockets to slow its speed to match Bennu's. It orbited the asteroid and began a months-long survey in October 2020. Extensive mapping, from an altitude of about 3 miles ...

The OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission delivered pieces of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, before moving on to study asteroid Apophis in 2029.

For more than half a decade, the members of this mission faced multiple technical challenges: building, testing, and launching the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2016; rendezvousing with asteroid Bennu ...

On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth and dropped a sample of asteroid Bennu to Utah's West Desert. The mission went "absolutely perfectly," and NASA scientists hope the sample will ...

The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...

The OSIRIS-REx capsule will return a sample from Asteroid Bennu, which will be studied to investigate the origins of life on Earth [File: NASA/Reuters] By Sarah Shamim Published On 24 Sep 2023 24 ...

Bennu, discovered in 1999, ... Osiris-Rex launched in 2016 and arrived at Bennu a couple of years later, making observations at a distance. From those remote findings, ...

OSIRIS-REx also discovered that Bennu’s orbit is changing. A “day” on Bennu lasts a short 4 hours and 17.8 minutes. But that’s enough to heat up the asteroid’s dayside.

[NARRATOR]: The OSIRIS-REx timeline includes five years to design and build the instruments and spacecraft, two years to reach Bennu, a year and a half mapping and studying the asteroid before ...

OSIRIS-REx then immediately fired up its thrusters to back away from Bennu. The spacecraft’s sampling head touched Bennu’s surface for approximately 6 seconds before retreating.