NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

NASA reports that the OSIRIS-REx capsule “has been bagged” and is flying suspended from a helicopter to the space agency’s clean lab to recover samples gathered from the Bennu asteroid in 2020.

For this homecoming, which marks the first U.S. retrieval of samples from an asteroid, it has been a long haul. OSIRIS-REx launched on September 8, 2016—seven years ago this month. The probe ...

OSIRIS-REx launched Sept. 8 ... Two Japanese missions have previously retrieved asteroid samples, though not from a carbonaceous world like Bennu. The DART mission successfully demonstrated ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized ...

In other words, OSIRIS-REx was meant to deliver untouched asteroid chunks home to be analyzed in a lab. This brilliant plan worked. The samples landed in the Utah desert in 2023, and scientists ...

The Bennu asteroid samples onboard OSIRIS-REx are about to face the bumpiest part of their journey back from deep space. NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission faces the most difficult ...

A precious bounty of asteroid samples is set to arrive on Earth this weekend, and scientists around the world can't wait. Early on Sunday morning (Sept. 24), NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe will release a ...

Why Trust Us? OSIRIS-REx will deliver its asteroid sample to Earth this Sunday morning. The mission is returning samples of the asteroid Bennu via a sample capsule that it will drop from its in ...

Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way to Earth to drop off rocky samples from asteroid Bennu on Sunday, marking NASA’s first attempt to retrieve a piece of a pure ...

The Bennu samples were retrieved by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020. The robotic probe scraped 4.2 ounces of material from the asteroid and dropped them into Utah by parachute in a sealed ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx seven-year mission to collect rocks and dust from a near-Earth asteroid is complete. The capsule containing the final samples returned to Earth on the morning of September 24th ...