NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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太阳系至今仍有许多未解之谜，比如行星等天体是如何诞生的、又是如何形成现在的状模样，地球上的生命是如何起源等等。研究人员认为，解开这些谜团的关键就在于那些相比太阳和行星不那么显眼的天体——小行星，因而备受关注。日本曾2次通过探测器从小行星上成功采集样本 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...

REx mission returned from space 60 years later with a sample from an asteroid called Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks on Revelstoke and continues to provid ...

By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...