The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will unveil the first public display of a sample of Bennu—a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid—to museumgoers Friday, Nov. 3. The rocky fragment was ...

On Oct. 20, 2020, OSIRIS-REx successfully pulled off its attempt to collect a sample from Bennu. The spacecraft briefly touched down on the asteroid’s loose surface, using a gust of nitrogen gas ...