Asteroid NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission landed on had a surface like a 'pit of plastic balls'

Nearly two years ago, NASA made history when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly "tagged" 101955 Bennu to collect a regolith sample from the surface of the asteroid. While the mission won't return to Earth until late next year , NASA shared new information about the celestial body. In an update published this week (via Mashable ), the agency revealed OSIRIS-REx would have sunk into Bennu had the spacecraft not immediately fired its thrusters after touching the asteroid's surface. "It turns out tha...