Two months ago, NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe dropped home samples ... this week the mission team is tucking in one of the probe's two solar panels to provide shade for its most sensitive instruments.

OSIRIS-REx is an ongoing mission ... Puzio chose the name because he thought TAGSAM and the solar panels resembled the bird god's neck and wings. Bennu is one of several thousand near-Earth ...

Besides folding solar panels, onboard cameras, and equipment to map Bennu's surface, OSIRIS-REx is equipped with a 10-foot-long (3 meters) sample arm for retrieving chunks of rock from the asteroid.

The probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REx, aced its sample-return mission ... the mission team tucked in one of OSIRIS-APEX's two solar panels such that it shaded the probe's most sensitive ...

They do, however, imply that the conditions required for life’s formation were common throughout the early solar system. NASA ...

A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed ... Released from the OSIRIS-REx mothership four hours earlier, the 110-pound ...

On a grander scale, Bennu and OSIRIS-REx symbolize two parallel revolutions in modern astronomy that are upending old conceptions of the solar system ... spacecraft’s panels, which house ...

Watch: How NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will bring Bennu asteroid sample back to Earth No solar eclipse glasses? For 'ring of fire' in October, try a cracker or slotted spoon ...

The findings don't show evidence for life itself, NASA said, "but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system, increasing the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission capsule contains an 8.8-ounce asteroid sample that could help scientists worldwide learn more about the solar system's origins. Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina, the deputy ...

Now, a mission by NASA to collect a piece of ancient asteroid and bring it back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of life may have been scattered throughout the solar system billions ...

“NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system,” Nicky Fox, associate administrator of the Science Mission ...