The asteroid sample hauled to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has lots of water and carbon-containing compounds, mission team members announced today (Oct. 11).

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During a webcast today (Oct. 10), NASA will unveil the asteroid sample hauled to Earth by its OSIRIS-REx mission last month.

WASHINGTON — The drogue parachute on the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule failed to deploy properly because of a design error, a flaw that did not prevent a safe landing of the capsule. In a Dec ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a total of 4.29 ounces (121.6 grams) of material from asteroid Bennu, which is over twice the mission’s goal, NASA revealed on Thursday.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx recently dropped off a sample from asteroid Bennu, and now it will continue on to a new target: asteroid Apophis.

NASA returned its first sample of an asteroid to Earth last year, but getting at the full sample proved difficult due to a couple of troublesome fasteners.

1 / 7 Show Caption + A helicopter delivers a sample of the asteroid Bennu to a clean room at U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground on September 24, 2023. The sample was collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

In January 2024, NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space rock Bennu.

An all-new, one-hour documentary revealing the incredible challenges, surprises and human triumphs of OSIRIS-REx, the nearly twenty-year space mission to return samples from an ancient asteroid ...

In 2016, NASA launched a spacecraft to do something rarely attempted before: Collect space rocks from a potentially dangerous asteroid. The mission, named OSIRIS-REx, was successful. Tuesday ...