In 2016, NASA launched the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx towards the near-earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft managed to make contact in 2020, collecting samples which returned in 2023. Those samples ...

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4-6-page sample graded paper with a contextualized paragraph-long explanation about how this paper is relevant to the Smithsonian Internship Program. The paper itself does not have to contain markings ...

Robert Kennicott, pictured against Alaska’s Kennicott Glacier, was a key figure in the Smithsonian’s formative years. | Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images (Kennicott); Daniel A.

“I am a hands-on teacher, so I fell in love with it instantly,” she said. The materials were part of a five-year randomized controlled study by the Smithsonian Science Education Center that launched ...

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Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully collected samples from Bennu in 2023, marking the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission. The data gathered has helped researchers better understand the ...

Bennu was also the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid and deliver it to Earth in 2023. It was chosen for this mission because it makes a close ...

About 500 miles from Washington, its closest U.S. neighbor, Alaska isn’t the easiest destination to reach from the contiguous states, but these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...

and then brought that sample back to Earth for a landing in the Utah desert in September 2023. While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected.

The chemical building blocks of life have been found in the grainy dust of an asteroid called Bennu, an analysis reveals ... was discovered in the sample too. Some of these compounds have been seen in ...