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

In this photo provided by NASA, recovery teams participate in field rehearsals to prepare for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission at the Department of Defense ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission will return rock samples to Earth on Sunday. NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles ...

On Sept. 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission made U.S. history by returning samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth after seven years in deep space.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert.

REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect an asteroid sample and bring it back to Earth. On Sunday morning, the asteroid material successfully reached Earth's surface, landing in the Utah ...

Completing a seven-year mission to not only study but gather and return samples of an asteroid, the OSIRIS-REx mission comes to end end in the Utah desert. Posted 2023-09-24T14:02:10+00:00 ...

Launched on September 8, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop an Atlas V launch vehicle, OSIRIS-REx was the first American attempt to return samples from an asteroid.

Osiris-Rex will be arriving in Utah Sunday with a sample of the asteroid, Bennu. Here's how you can watch its return to Earth. Osiris-Rex will be arriving on Sunday, Sept. 24 with a sample of the ...

A training model of the OSIRIS-REx sample-return capsule is seen during a drop test on Aug. 30 at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.