In January 2024, NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler ...

NASA has shared a high-resolution image of the asteroid Bennu sample inside the Touch-and-Go-Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), which remained closed because of stuck fasteners until last week.

NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston has revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler head. On Jan ...

This trio of images acquired by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows a wide shot and two close-ups of a region in asteroid Bennu's northern hemisphere. The wide-angle image (left), obtained by the ...

Sample material from asteroid Bennu can be seen on the middle right. ... Lucy will provide the first high-resolution images of what these asteroids look like.

In just under a year, on Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx sample collector — a basket full of asteroid dust and rocks — will return to Earth's surface.