NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to arrive at Bennu in two years, then spend a year surveying the asteroid before collecting a sample that will be returned to Earth for analysis.

An external view of the OSIRIS-REx sample-collector hardware shows material from the carbon-rich asteroid scattered across the right side. NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold You talk about the ...

Nearly two years after launch, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission caught its first glimpse of the asteroid Bennu on Aug. 17 from 1.4 million miles away. The asteroid appeared as a ...

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An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent asteroid target Bennu.