Scientists confirm OSIRIS-REx brought home at least 70.3 grams of material from asteroid Bennu, surpassing its goal of 60 grams.

Mission astéroïde : Retour sur la mission d’Osiris-Rex, une sonde spatiale américaine, envoyée en 2020 sur Bennu, un astéroïde de 500 mètres de diamètre, pour faire des ...

Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by OSIRIS‐REx. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2024; DOI: 10.1111/maps.14227 ...

OSIRIS-Rex is continuing to make NASA scientists work hard to get answers. The space capsule’s sample has delivered nearly 10 more grams of sample from the Asteroid Bennu, than scientists were ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample capsule begins to reveal its secrets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The OSIRIS-REx mission used some pretty fascinating tech to autonomously acquire rocks and dust from an asteroid called Bennu. Asteroids can act as time capsules, and Bennu reflects what was ...

To capture these samples, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approached asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and extended an arm containing the canister (called TAGSAM, or the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition ...

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.

Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, discusses his next final frontier. By Katrina Miller Last fall, a NASA spacecraft named ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...