About four hours later, the sample landed inside the Defense Department’s Utah Test and Training Range. The target landing zone was an area about the size of Rhode Island, about 80 miles from ...

NASA is in the final stages of preparation to send its first sample of asteroid material collected in space down to Earth. The material was collected by NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation ...

The Bennu sample has been estimated at 250 grams (8.8 ounces), far surpassing the 5 grams carried back from Ryugu in 2020 or the tiny specimen delivered from asteroid Itokawa in 2010.

The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid. Scientists anticipate getting about a half ...

A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.

Oct 11 (Reuters) - NASA on Wednesday gave the public a first glimpse of what scientists found inside a tightly sealed capsule that was returned to Earth last month carrying a carbon-rich soil ...

‘We're really lucky,’ says Dr Ashley King, a meteorite researcher at the Natural History Museum, who will be part of the team ...

(CNN) — Scientists have taken their first glimpse of a sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu — and stumbled upon a good bit more than they expected. When they opened the canister ...

(CNN) — A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of ...

A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on Earth was seeded ...