The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth ... If that wasn’t enough, another team—led by meteorite experts and cosmic mineralogists at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...

we had never seen this set of minerals in a meteorite. Before returning the samples, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent over two years making observations around Bennu. From that two years of work ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth.

It took two years for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid ... Cosmochemist Professor Frank Brenker shows three grains of a meteorite that the Goethe University team used ...

In September 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a special delivery that ... "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial ...