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 ...

Thanks to laser altimetry data and high-resolution imagery from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, we can take a tour of asteroid Bennu’s remarkable terrain. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...

OSIRIS-REx Remaining Asteroid Bennu Sample Revealed And Photographed In Super High-Resolution Detail After nearly 4 long months, the contents of the canister can finally be seen in all their glory ...

This global map of asteroid Bennu’s surface is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft between Mar. 7 and Apr. 19, 2019. A total of 2,155 PolyCam images were stitched ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...