This weekend will see the landing of NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx. The spacecraft visited asteroid Bennu to study, photograph, and scoop up a sample from it ...

The asteroid sample collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just experienced its second touchdown in only two days. The sample — a stash of dirt and gravel that the probe snagged from the ...

The spacecraft's two years of scanning the surface of asteroid Bennu and its brief sample-collection touchdown showed scientists how little they know about space rocks. Prior to OSIRIS-REx's 2016 ...

Here’s how it works. On Sept. 24, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will come hurtling through Earth's atmosphere, carrying samples of the nearby, "potentially hazardous" asteroid Bennu. The return ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt ... NASA livestreame the landing. The spacecraft is powered by solar panels.

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.

Their perseverance paid off as Osiris-Rex became the first American spacecraft to retrieve material from an asteroid, bringing back a staggering amount of matter from space for scientists around ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will land on Earth this Sunday, September 24, seven years after launching ... More to collect samples of a near-Earth asteroid. NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation ...

The capsule was released from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it passed by Earth this morning, entering the atmosphere at around 27,000mph. The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Saudi Arabia ...

MORE: Asteroid that passes nearby could hit Earth in the future, NASA says Back in September 2016, the federal space agency launched the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on a daring mission to snare a batch ...