OSIRIS-REx is an ongoing mission. It returned samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, and is now moving on to study asteroid Apophis in 2029. When you purchase through links on our ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized ...

That mission, OSIRIS-REx, delivered pieces of the 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) Bennu to Earth late last month. NASA gave the world its first look at the sample today (Oct. 11) during a live ...

After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an asteroid ...

Seven years after the NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx first launched from American soil in 2016, the Sample Return Capsule — or SRC — made a relatively gentle landing inside the Utah Test and ...

The fragments were from a world all their own—pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected and returned to Earth for analysis by the OSIRIS-REx mission. The samples hold chemical clues to the ...

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life. transcript NASA ...

The OSIRIS-REx team plans to broadcast the recovery live on their website, NASA.gov, and have been putting their broadcast equipment to the test. On August 30th, a capsule drop test was performed ...