Finally, the capsule has a projected lading in the Utah dessert at 10:55 a.m. ET. If OSIRIS-REx does not make this window, the next attempt would be in 2025 because that's when it will next orbit ...

An unmanned spacecraft about the size of a household toolshed will travel 4.4 billion miles to bring back samples from Bennu, an asteroid orbiting our sun. OSIRIS-REx's seven-year mission will ...

Scientists confirm OSIRIS-REx brought home at least 70.3 grams of material from asteroid Bennu, surpassing its goal of 60 grams. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flung a capsule the size of a car tire onto a bombing range in Utah on Sunday, delivering safely to Earth a sample of the intriguing and potentially hazardous ...

Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size of a microwave oven ...

Osiris-Rex lowered itself down to the asteroid - holding its grabbing mechanism on the end of a 3m-long (10ft) boom. The idea was to slap the surface and, at the same time, give out a blast of ...

Osiris-Rex, the mothership, rocketed away on the $1 billion mission in 2016. It reached Bennu two years later and, using a long stick vacuum, grabbed rubble from the small roundish space rock in 2020.

OSIRIS-REx's sample capsule is scheduled to come down to Earth on Sunday (Sept. 24), making a soft landing under parachutes in the Utah desert.. That capsule is full of precious cargo — material ...

OSIRIS-REx had a tricky time landing on the asteroid's gravelly surface, but eventually made it onto the rock. The sample was captured on 20 October 2020 after two years mapping where to take it from.

Seven years ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched to collect asteroid samples from the near-Earth object Bennu. Today, the samples made landfall on Earth, closing a long-awaited chapter ...

In a flyby of Earth, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released the capsule containing NASA’s first asteroid samples from 63,000 miles out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse ...

Nasa's Osiris-Rex capsule will come screaming into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday at more than 15 times the speed of a rifle bullet. It will make a fireball in the sky as it does so, but a heat ...