NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully brought back 4.29 ounces (121.6 grammes) of material from asteroid Bennu upon its return to Earth on 24 September 2023.

‘Double the sample, double the fun’: NASA got double the amount of asteroid Bennu sample

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, acronymically named Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security — Regolith Explorer, culminated in the successful retrieval of specimens from asteroid Bennu.

First look of asteroid Bennu samples hints it could be remnant of ancient ocean world

NASA's Johnson Space Center has been struggling to open a canister which kept an asteroid sample safe during its journey through space. A month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth, enclosed within a tight capsule.

A canister containing asteroid samples is giving NASA a hard time. Here's why

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working on its final preparations for the landing on Earth of a precious asteroid sample next month. NASA teams with the OSIRIS-REx mission completed a vital test on Wednesday (August 30) by collecting a mock capsule that had fallen to Earth in the desert west of Salt Lake City at the Utah Test and Training Range of the US Department of Defence.

NASA making final preparations for asteroid sample delivery by spacecraft this month

A NASA spacecraft left a mess at an asteroid when it grabbed a load of rubble last year for return to Earth, new pictures revealed Thursday. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft made one final flyby of asteroid Bennu on April 7 to take photos of the disturbance left by October's sample collection.

NASA spacecraft leaves a mess after grabbing asteroid samples

After a long wait of six years, samples of an asteroid from a far off territory in space arrived in Japan on Tuesday. Greeted with smiles and claps, the sample was fetched from an asteroid 300 million kilometres away from Earth, and was sought as part of a space probe attempting to understand the source of life.

In pics: After a six year-long journey, capsule carrying asteroid samples arrives in Japan

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