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OSIRIS-REx: To Bennu and Back is a local public television program presented by AZPM.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have been analyzing it ever since. International scientific teams have ...
This could explain the pebbles present in Aguas Zarcas, making the meteorite the first physical evidence of the geological process observed by OSIRIS-REx on Bennu.
A meteorite on Earth holds new evidence that asteroids do indeed mysteriously spit out pebbles, a new study finds. In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft discovered a strange new phenomenon when ...
Meteorite May Help Solve Mystery Of Asteroid Bennu's Strange “Pebble Spitting” Behavior Asteroid Bennu surprised astronomers in 2019 by spitting out small pebbles, and now a meteorite may ...
After seven years in space and over 4 billion miles traveled, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully collected and delivered the first U.S. sample from a near-Earth asteroid. Yet, after all this ...
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft picked up the Bennu materials in October 2020, using a daring manoeuvre to approach and then "high-five" the asteroid - an operation performed while 330 million km (205 ...
As OSIRIS-REx flies its return trajectory through space, teams on Earth are preparing for the sample's Sept. 24 landing in the Utah desert.
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023. While ...
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 ...
“From OSIRIS-REx we know that these particle ejection events are much more frequent than these high-velocity impacts,” said Heck, “so they probably play a more important role in determining the makeup ...