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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 - (NEW YORK) -- A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in ...

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 ...