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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target. It's on a path to rendezvous with the Apophis asteroid when it whizzes ...

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 ...

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 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 ...