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  NASA To Reveal First Images Of Largest Asteroid Sample Collected In Space

  NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps the origins of life itself.

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  NASA Shares Photo of Asteroid Bennu as OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads Back to Earth After Collecting Samples

  NASA shared an Instagram post showing the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu, from which the space agency has collected samples using its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which will return to Earth in 2023.

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  NASA Spacecraft Successfully Gets Sample From Asteroid Bennu

  NASA said Thursday its robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex was able to stow a rock and dust sample scooped up from the asteroid Bennu, after a flap that had wedged open put the mission at risk.

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  NASA Probe OSIRIS-REx Briefly Touches Asteroid Bennu to Collect Rare Samples

  After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday to collect rock and dust samples in a precision operation 200 million miles (330 million kilometres) from Earth.

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  NASA Mission Picks 4 Sites for Asteroid Bennu Sample Return

  Since its arrival in December 2018, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has mapped the entire asteroid.

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  NASA Says Taking Sample From Asteroid Bennu Harder Than Expected

  The Osiris-Rex team said Tuesday that the surface of the asteroid, which measures 490 meters (1,600 feet) in diameter, was covered in stones and boulders.

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  NASA's Sampling Probe Mission Snaps Picture Of Asteroid Bennu

  NASA's first asteroid-sampling mission OSIRIS-REx, which went into orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year's Eve, has captured incredible photographs of the smallest ever celestial body to be orbited by a spacecraft.

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  NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Snaps Incredible Picture of Earth

  NASA's first asteroid-sampling mission OSIRIS-REx has captured an incredible image of the Earth. The image was captured on December 19, 2018.

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  NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spaceship Sets Record by Entering Orbit Around Asteroid Bennu

  Elon Musk has suggested that the first resident on Mars could be artificial intelligence (AI). Musk wants to establish a base on Mars.

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  NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Finds Signs of Water on Asteroid Bennu

  OSIRIS-REx, which flew last week within a scant 19km of the asteroid Bennu some 2.25 million kilometres from Earth, found traces of hydrogen and oxygen molecules.

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  NASA Probe Reaches Asteroid Which Could Hit Earth In About 150 Years

  NASA's deep space explorer Osiris-Rex flew on Monday to within a dozen miles of its destination, a skyscraper-sized asteroid believed to hold organic compounds fundamental to life as well as the potential to collide with Earth in about 150 years.

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  NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe, Its First Asteroid Sample Collector, Reaches Target 'Bennu'

  NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu.

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  NASA Set To Launch First Asteroid Dust-Retrieval Mission

  The US space agency counted down on Thursday to its first mission to collect dust from an asteroid, the kind of cosmic body that may have delivered life-giving materials to Earth billions of years ago.

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  NASA Set To Launch Near-Earth Asteroid Mission

  US space agency NASA is poised on Thursday to launch its groundbreaking first mission to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples that could shed light on the dawn of the solar system.

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  NASA To Launch Spacecraft To Near-Earth Asteroid

  NASA is set to launch a new spacecraft in September that will travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu and bring back a sample of surface material which may contain building blocks of life.