Following Tuesday's historic touchdown on the asteroid Bennu, NASA has released never-before-seen images of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft kicking up rocks and debris on the space rock's surface.

Get ready to become a lot more familiar with Bennu as OSIRIS-REx draws ever closer in the coming months, and then spends 2019 orbiting the asteroid as close as just 1.5 km (1 mile) above its surface.

This image of asteroid Bennu was released on June 13, 2019, ... Security-Regolith Explorer, launched in September 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

This trio of images acquired by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows a wide shot and two close-ups of a region in asteroid Bennu's northern hemisphere. The wide-angle image (left), obtained by the ...

Last month, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spaceship dropped off a sample of dirt from the Bennu asteroid. Scientists have been studying it ever since. The black rocky regolith, or debris, contains carbon and ...

Cracks and fractures in Bennu's surface seem to have been caused by heat from the sun, stunning images from NASA ... Security-Regolith Explorer) arrived at Bennu in 2018 after a two-year ...

Asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid that was studied by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission from 2018 to 2021.

NASA has shared a high-resolution image of the asteroid Bennu sample inside the Touch-and-Go-Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), which remained closed because of stuck fasteners until last week.

These images were recorded over a 10-minute span during OSIRIS-REx’ rehearsal above Bennu’s surface in ... scientists will get a chance to test why Bennu’s regolith is so loose—and then ...

Up to 75 percent of Bennu’s regolith will remain in storage so that scientists in the future can “work on the sample with new techniques that we don’t even know exist yet,” Dr. Connolly said.

The photos and videos displayed at the event Wednesday were of overflow samples. The goal of the OSIRIS-REx sample collection was 60 grams of asteroid material. So far, the estimated material ...

Asteroid Bennu is a Near-Earth Object (sometimes called an NEO) that orbits around the Sun every 436.6 days and comes within a close distance of 0.002 AU from Earth every six years.