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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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which is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to a new asteroid, Apophis.] What are some of the highlights that have been gleaned from studying the samples? So Bennu is clearly a fragment of a much ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

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NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...