NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.

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 ...

OSIRIS-REx samples have a phosphate crust never seen before in meteorites, Lauretta said. These high concentrations of phosphate have been detected in extraterrestrial ocean worlds, he said.

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 ...

After 20 years of planning, building, launching, and waiting, NASA finally accessed the last of the Bennu asteroid sample from the OSIRIS-REx sample retrieval mission, which returned to Earth this ...

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.

The OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has been sent off to study the asteroid Apophis – also known as the “God of Chaos”- to “take advantage of the asteroid’s 2029 flyby of Earth… ...

Officials reported Thursday that the Osiris-Rex spacecraft collected 121.6 grams (4.29 ounces) of dust and pebbles from asteroid Bennu. That's just over half a cup and the biggest cosmic haul ever ...

Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, discusses his next final frontier. By Katrina Miller Last fall, a NASA spacecraft named ...