Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate ... parts left-handedness and right-handedness in their OSIRIS-REx samples, referred to as a "racemic" mixture.

These samples have shown molecules that are essential ... were common throughout the early solar system. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...

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.

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid. Now, the historic mission is coming to an end seven years later. The sample capsule from OSIRIS-REx ...

"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," the statement reads WASHINGTON, January 30. /TASS/. Samples of rock ...

We believe that the earliest that things will be complete will be late on Wednesday,” said Sandra Freund, the OSIRIS-REx mission operations ... on the surface to get samples of regolith, dirt ...

Scanning electron microscope images of trona found in samples of the asteroid Bennu returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Trona is water-bearing sodium carbonate, also known commonly as soda ash.

The mission’s scientists shared pictures of the plumes… Read More NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft today maneuvered into an orbit that takes it within 4,000 feet of the surface of Bennu ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

On September 8, NASA will launch its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft into space. The spacecraft will spend the next two years catching up with asteroid Bennu. "The asteroid, little altered over time ...

OSIRIS-REx: To Bennu and Back is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...