NASA's pioneering OSIRIS-REx probe has bagged up its precious asteroid sample for return to Earth. OSIRIS-REx has finished stowing the bits of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu that it snagged last ...

NASA’s pioneering OSIRIS-REx probe has bagged up its precious asteroid sample for return to Earth. OSIRIS-REx has finished stowing the bits of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu that it snagged last ...

We just got our first view of NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe carrying its asteroid sample toward Earth. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Optical Ground Station telescope in the Canary Islands snapped a ...

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe has just made history -- again. The spacecraft gathered samples from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu earlier this year, and it bombed the asteroid a few months later. Now, ...

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 grams. NASA's Osiris-Rex probe has brought a total of 121.6 grams of ...

And that sample looks pretty big. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's pioneering OSIRIS-REx probe has bagged up its precious ...

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