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the probe’s observations of Bennu were hiding a secret that was uncovered by university students who were scouring the data. The REXIS instrument installed on OSIRIS-REx detected the distant ...

In September 2023, the NASA-owned OSIRIS-REx probe delivered to Earth a capsule containing valuable material samples from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists were curious to see what they would find ...

OSIRIS-REx found that Bennu’s surface was far rougher ... samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Hayabusa2 probe. One key finding announced was related to the chirality, or ...

Your browser does not support the video element. The asteroid Bennu just keeps getting more bizarre. When NASA decided to send a probe to land on a space rock and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

In 2020, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe successfully touched the asteroid briefly, finding a loose collection of ...

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The probe will send back images of the sample ... “Everything went just exactly perfect,” Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator from the University of Arizona, Tucson, said on ...