NASA's OSIRIS-REx team has successfully collected 70 grams of rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu, surpassing their 60-gram goal

The team has found evidence of both carbon and water in initial analysis of this material.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Team Triumphs Over Fasteners – Gains Access to Remaining Asteroid Sample

NASA's Johnson Space Center team overcame technical challenges to access more of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample, exceeding collection goals and setting the stage for a comprehensive sample catalog release. Curation team members at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have successfully removed t

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Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May to release 3D atlas of asteroid

The rocker astrophysicist is co-author of a three-dimensional atlas of Bennu, an asteroid explored by the Osiris-Rex probe in 2020

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