NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Full list of degrees not classed as ‘professional’ by Trump admin Trump’s ...

OSIRIS-Rex arrived at Asteroid Bennu expecting a smooth, forgiving surface ideal for sample collection. Instead, the spacecraft found a world made of loose, shifting debris that reacted unpredictably ...

The spacecraft was launched in 2016 and entered orbit around Bennu at the end of 2018, after a two-year, 1.25-billion-mile journey to chase down the asteroid. The Nightingale site, located in the ...