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The sample is less than an inch wide, but comes from a 4.5 billion-year-old space rock.

A sizable crowd turned out to see a small rock as the Smithsonian debuted the first display of a piece of the asteroid Bennu from the sample recently brought back by NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission.

OSIRIS-REx, American spacecraft that orbited the asteroid Bennu and returned a sample of it to Earth. The roughly 250-gram (9-ounce) sample was the largest extraterrestrial sample returned to Earth since the Apollo missions to the Moon and the first asteroid sample collected by an American

UArizona officials say there is a new mission for the spacecraft that brought a sample from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth.

Dark and dusty material from asteroid Bennu could reveal new information about the origins of our solar system and how life began on Earth.

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 - The Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History will unveil the first public display of a sample of Bennu-a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid-to museumgoers Friday, Nov. 3. The rocky fragment wa

As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids,

By Celine Smith

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 26, 2023 - Goddards GIANT optical navigation software helped guide the OSIRIS-REx mission to the Asteroid Bennu. Today its developers continue to add functionality and streamline useability for future mission

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