In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission made contact with the asteroid Bennu for about 4.7 seconds, roughly half as long as it took Neil Armstrong to announce his “one small step for ...

3. Bennu – A Small Rock with Big Scientific Value Bennu is a small near-Earth asteroid – just about 500 metres in diameter – but it’s one of the most studied and scientifically valuable objects of its ...

It’s 1:49 p.m. mountain time on October 20, 2020, and the screen shows Bennu sitting within a green hoop that represents the orbit of a NASA spacecraft with a mouthful of a name: the Origins ...

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission traveled to the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu and sent home a small capsule containing a sample in September 2023. Released from the OSIRIS-REx craft, the sample return ...

The first, called “touch-and-go,” was used by Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft at asteroid Ryugu in 2018 and by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at asteroid Bennu in 2020. But Tianwen-2 will also test a ...

Geologist Michael Ackerson holds a sample from Canada's Acasta Gneiss formation, home to some of the oldest rocks on the planet. Michael Ackerson We know Earth is old. Scientists estimate that our ...

BOBBY BENNU was a three-time winner last season, including an emphatic win over slightly further at this course, where he stretched nine lengths clear of his rivals to open his account.