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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nasa's Osiris-Rex capsule blasted off from Earth in 2016 and has returned seven years later with some special cargo on board.

OSIRIS-REx completed NASA's first asteroid sample return mission on Sunday (Sept. 24), when its reentry capsule landed in the western Utah desert.But now the main spacecraft has embarked on a side ...

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 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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...