I smiled as I pulled past the entrance sign, which today read, “Go OSIRIS- REx!” The mission logo filled another nearby billboard. Just ahead, I could see the nose of the Atlas V rocket pointing up to ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation engineer, Neftali Hernandez, attaches one of the tools developed to help remove two final fasteners that prohibited complete disassembly of the TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go ...

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 ...

2.9K. Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation engineer, Neftali Hernandez, attaches one of the tools developed to help remove two final fasteners that prohibited complete disassembly of the TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go ...

The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for safeguarding pristine samples of an asteroid delivered to Earth. When two fasteners got stuck on the canister ...

Crossed wires likely prevented OSIRIS-REx's return capsule from deploying its drogue parachute during its descent through Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 24. Skip to main content.

OSIRIS-REx managed to bring back about 121 grams (4.3 ounces) . Five grams of asteroid bits were enough to yield some exciting results, though, which foreshadows what 121 grams of asteroid bits ...

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 ...

"The Asteroid Hunter," University of Arizona Regents Professor Dante Lauretta's memoir about leading the Tucson-born OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, goes on sale March 19.

Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by OSIRIS‐REx. Meteoritics & Planetary Science , 2024; DOI: 10.1111/maps.14227 Cite This Page : ...

The weight is officially over for the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx space mission. On Thursday, NASA announced that a grand total of 121.6 grams of rocks and dust were brought back from the ...