NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben February 26, 2024 A Nasa mission that collided with an asteroid didn’t just leave a dent – it reshaped the space rock Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University The mission provided details about how to deflect an asteroid should one threaten Earth in future.
The “coal-like” material from Bennu. Nasa / Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebers October 13, 2023 Osiris-Rex: Nasa reveals evidence of water and carbon in sample delivered to Earth from an asteroid Lucinda King, University of Portsmouth Studying the sample could help answer how water arrived on Earth and how life started.
Artist’s concept of the OSIRIS REx spacecraft collecting material from Bennu. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center October 21, 2020 Asteroid Bennu: successful touchdown – but sample return mission has only just begun Monica Grady, The Open University Bennu will tell us about our own origins as much as about the origin of asteroid Bennu.