WATCH: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returns an asteroid soil sample to Earth. By Bella Isaacs-Thomas. Oct 21. WATCH: NASA releases first images from OSIRIS-REx touchdown on asteroid.

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah — The atmosphere was electric at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground as all eyes were on the OSIRIS-REx mission's sample return capsule during its 83-mile (133 ...

That mission, OSIRIS-REx, delivered pieces of the 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) Bennu to Earth late last month.NASA gave the world its first look at the sample today (Oct. 11) during a live webcast ...

Scientists aren’t yet sure exactly how much material OSIRIS-REx has brought back, but its collection cannister appeared to be packed. The mission’s goal was to return 60 grams of sample. However, from ...

In his book, the principal investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission describes the frantic morning of final checks before the launch. The following is an excerpt from The Asteroid Hunter: A ...

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 ...

How OSIRIS-REx's capsule could hold keys to 'building blocks of life' on Earth. The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away.

On this day, as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth, it released its sample return capsule, thereby ending its primary mission. [NASA HOST]: Buckle up and get ready for the ride of entry ...

“As the OSIRIS-REx mission progressed, I couldn’t help but share some of the latest developments with him,” Lauretta wrote in the preface of “Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid,” a book ...

But beyond that, Bennu could hold information that would help unlock our solar system’s secrets, like how it began and where life originated. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016 to collect a ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will unveil the first public display of a sample of Bennu—a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid—to museumgoers Friday, Nov. 3. The rocky fragment was ...

"The Asteroid Hunter," University of Arizona Regents Professor Dante Lauretta's memoir about leading the Tucson-born OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, goes on sale March 19.