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NASA’s first asteroid sample-return mission grabbed so much of Bennu that debris jammed the collector’s lid and the sample began leaking into space — engineers ru…

OSIRIS-REx flew hundreds of millions of miles to do something NASA had never done: bring a piece of an asteroid home. The ...
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Asteroid Bennu samples from OSIRIS-REx mission are headed to Earth

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission surpasses goal for collection of asteroid samples

The curation team processing NASA's asteroid Bennu sample has removed and collected 2.48 ounces (70.3 grams) of rocks and dust from the sampler hardware—surpassing the agency's goal of bringing at ...
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission teases new insights on how life began

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not ...
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Surprising phosphate finding in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample

A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, shown in microscope images. The top-left pane shows a dark Bennu particle, about a millimeter long, with an outer ...
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Building Blocks for Life Found in OSIRIS-REx Sample Retrieval Mission, NASA Confirm

Life on Earth, as we know it, needs a few things to get off the ground. It needs an abundance of liquid water, a Goldilocks temperature that won't make said water freeze or boil, and a collection of a ...
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OSIRIS-REx Completed at Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft is now undergoing environmental testing at the company’s Space Systems facilities near Denver. OSIRIS-REx ...