Space. OSIRIS-REx Bringing Asteroid Samples To Earth - NASA Explains. Posted: February 16, 2024 | Last updated: November 17, 2024. NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Known in acronymic astro-speak as OSIRIS-REx, that seven-year-long voyage brought home the goods via a sample return canister that came to full stop on Sept. 24, 2023, parachuting into a remote ...

Combined with the samples already collected, OSIRIS-REx returned a total of 4.29 ounces (121.6 grams) of material from asteroid Bennu — that's more than double the mission's goal and the largest ...

The OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has been sent off to study the asteroid Apophis – also known as the “God of Chaos”- to “take advantage of the asteroid’s 2029 flyby of Earth… ...

Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, discusses his next final frontier. By Katrina Miller Last fall, a NASA spacecraft named ...

At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in September 2016 and reached asteroid Bennu in December 2018. The spacecraft snagged pieces of a small, near-Earth asteroid in October 2020 and began making its ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...

OSIRIS-REx, though, escaped damage, unlike a similar incident nearly two decades earlier. In September 2004, NASA’s Genesis mission returned to Earth after collecting samples of the solar wind.

The sample-return capsule from University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission rests in the Utah desert near its main parachute, shortly after touching down on Sept. 24.