The OSIRIS-REx curation team is shown on January 10, attempting to remove one of the fasteners that prohibited the complete opening of the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or TAGSAM ...

The OSIRIS-REx Bennu sample now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. In this image, you can see the specimen before the container was sealed. The sample’s official ...

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 : ...

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.

Scientists confirm OSIRIS-REx brought home at least 70.3 grams of material from asteroid Bennu, surpassing its goal of 60 grams.

Shot into space as part of the agency's OSIRIS-REx mission in 2016, the capsule was enclosed for years within a spacecraft that made a 4-billion-mile-long journey to reach Bennu. Once on the ...

NASA returned its first sample of an asteroid to Earth ... Researchers were able to extract 70 grams of material from the canister that had been carried back to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx ...

The sample is less than an inch wide, but comes from a 4.5 billion-year-old space rock. ... NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped the samples off from the carbon-rich space rock.

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 ...

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 ...

"20 minutes after dropping the sample high above Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 24, the spacecraft fired its thrusters to put it on course to rendezvous with Apophis in 5½ years – just after ...