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NASA has completed its first-ever sample return mission from an asteroid, first launched in 2016, as a capsule containing a sample of the Bennu asteroid was successfully returned to Earth on September 24, 2023.

Extraterrestrial rocks and dust – material scooped up from an asteroid – are scheduled to be delivered to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. A safe landing in the

NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley invites media to interview entry systems experts that helped design the OSIRIS-REx (Origins,

Solveig Irvine, who serves as mission manager for OSIRIS-REx at Marshall Space Flight Center, said her team and others have been practicing and preparing for

Before he was performing for a sea of fans in Englands Wembley Stadium, Queen guitarist Brian May was working toward his PhD in astrophysics while researching the Zodiacal Light -

After successfully delivering NASAs first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey \u2014\u00a0this time to study an asteroid that will closely approach Earth in just a few years.

The spacecraft will use a new style of propulsion as well as conduct a test of a laser-based communication system.

Studying the Bennu asteroid will help humanity understand its past and shape its future.

Get psyched.

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