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NASA showed something crazy. We have never seen pebbles like this before

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The pieces of rock come from the asteroid Bennu, the same one that had a slim chance of hitting Earth and causing the end of the world. This did not happen, but taking advantage of its proximity, scientists sent a research probe there. The mission was named OSIRIS-REx. It was a complete success… when the … Read more

NASA publishes the first photos of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu

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NASA publishes the first photos of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu

Four months ago, the OSIRIS-REx capsule, which contained samples from Bennu, crash-landed in the Utah desert. Photo: EFE – NASA DRAWING/Keegan Barber Four months ago, in the Utah desert, in the United States, the OSIRIS-REx capsule fell, containing inside a container with samples captured by Bennu, an asteroid cataloged by NASA as “potentially dangerous”. (Read: … Read more