Nightingale is the primary sample collection site for the OSIRIS-REx mission. OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to make its first sample collection attempt at site Nightingale on Oct. 20.

OSIRIS-REx overcame the difficulty, safely landing its sample on Earth on Sept. 24. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The first asteroid sample collected in space by NASA arrived on Earth Sunday, Sept. 24, and there are multiple events leading up to its landing. NASA’s live coverage of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins ...

Inconsistent labels in the OSIRIS-REx landing plans are what caused the out-of-order parachute deployment during the return capsule’s descent to Earth on September 24, NASA stated in a release ...

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 ...

The Sept. 24 landing of the OSIRIS-REx space capsule was a historic success, but it wasn’t perfect. NASA has confirmed that the capsule’s parachute system did not work properly during its ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

When the OSIRIS-REx dropped a capsule in the Utah desert last year, it made headlines around the globe for returning NASA's first sample of an asteroid to Earth.

OSIRIS-REx is renamed OSIRIS-APEX and sent to Apophis, a 1,100-foot-wide asteroid expected to pass Earth at a distance of 20,000 miles in 2029. Jan. 19, 2024: TAGSAM is opened and Bennu samples ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex capsule carrying an asteroid sample successfully landed in a Utah desert on Sept. 24, 2023. Credit: NASA Before NASA recovered a capsule holding bits of space rock from the ...

On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought pieces of an asteroid to Earth. Launched in 2016, OSIRIS-REx flew to the asteroid Bennu where it circled the small rocky world from 2018 ...