Even though OSIRIS-REx isn't the first asteroid-sample-return mission humanity has completed — JAXA's Hayabusa takes that title — it is the heftiest. Or, in other words, the capsule that ...

Students wore T-shirts and carried stickers with the ... A university-issue lanyard jangled around his neck, just above a bright OSIRIS-REx logo on his shirt. The 18-year-old freshman had enrolled ...

OSIRIS-REx will drop off its Bennu sample at Earth on Sept. 24. It will then head to Apophis, another potentially dangerous space rock, for a rendezvous in 2029. Space.com: The challenges didn't ...

NASA’s OSIRIS ... they won’t for sure if they collected anything until this weekend, when they spin the vehicle and measure how much material is inside. However, the OSIRIS-REx team feels ...

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 ...

‘A pile of rubble that’s floating in microgravity’ Built and designed by Lockheed Martin in Colorado, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft hasn’t been this close to home in years. On Sept ...

The historic attempt to sample the asteroid Bennu could provide clues to the origins of our solar system—and of life itself. Working like a reverse vacuum cleaner, the sampler head of the OSIRIS ...

Don't Miss: Memorial Day weekend deals: Free Blink camera, $6 Kasa smart plugs, $40 Crock-Pot, $149 Bose earbuds, more The photo, which was posted to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx web portal, comes with the ...