The spacecraft's NavCam 1 - one of three cameras that comprised its 'Touch-and-Go' camera system - snapped the photo 804,000 miles (1,297,000 kilometers) from Earth and 735,000 miles (1,185,000 ...

The agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning a sample three ... which ...

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for ... REx spacecraft on a mission to an asteroid near Earth called Bennu ...

It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon. The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material. Small amounts of Bennu’s precious black grains — ...

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had a mission in 2020: fly to Bennu, an asteroid about 200 million miles from earth, land briefly, collect a small sample, and return home. But its mission was ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been steadily progressing since the spacecraft arrived ...

Bennu’s parent body formed 4.5 billion years ... like the dwarf planet Ceres or Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Interestingly, ...

The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu ... 4 percent chance that it will hit the Moon though so it is important to continue studying ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...