NASA mission to asteroid returning to Earth with a sample 05:53. A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu — leftovers from the ...

After mapping the asteroid using technology developed and built by Space Dynamics Laboratory, OSIRIS-REx briefly landed on Bennu, collecting the first U.S. asteroid sample on Oct. 20, 2020.

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away. It might come even ...

Unique asteroid sample lands at the Field Museum. Posted: June 11, 2025 ... The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life were astonishingly widespread in the early solar system ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, ... millions of years later land on Earth. TechGazer January 31, 2025 09:18 AM. Why we see life only on ...

WASHINGTON: Bennu, a rocky object that is categorised as a near-Earth asteroid, is currently around 186,000 miles (299,000 km) distance from Earth, its closest. With a one in 2,700 possibility of ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, ... “Interestingly, instead of the rapid reduction and slow two-year-long recovery of plants on land, ...

An artist’s impression of OSIRIS-REx digging into Bennu. Image: NASA. The OSIRIS-REx team collected more than twice the amount of asteroid material they had initially hoped to gather (4.29 ...

Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent and marine photosynthesis by 25 percent.

Photo shows An artist's concept of OSIRIS-REx at asteroid Bennu. Their findings come ahead of this month's planned effort by NASA to land on the lumpy space rock and bring back samples of its dirt ...