The mission's asteroid sample return capsule is currently ... mission operators will be able to pinpoint OSIRIS-REx's landing coordinates to within 30 feet (9 meters). The OSIRIS-REx return ...

In preparation for landing day ... the spacecraft to a spot where we could sample the asteroid." TAGSAM is the business end of the OSIRIS-REx's robotic arm, the hardware that snared the asteroid ...

at the post-landing news conference. The Osiris-Rex mission may have come to an end, but the spacecraft remains fully operational in space. It will next visit Apophis, another near-Earth asteroid ...

Seven years after launching to space, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ... at a different asteroid named Apophis. Four helicopters transported recovery and research teams to the landing site and ...

NASA has succeeded in returning its first sample of an asteroid to Earth, as the OSIRIS-REx mission released its capsule containing a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu early this morning.

A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold ... After course corrections to line up on the Utah landing site, the OSIRIS-REx mothership released the sample return capsule ...

Stay tuned. 9:00 a.m. EDT: Good morning, all, and welcome to our Space Team live coverage of the landing attempt of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. After punching through the ...

OSIRIS-REx's van-sized craft visited Bennu, scraped and collected material from the asteroid’s surface ... NASA livestreame the landing. The spacecraft is powered by solar panels.

A recovery team rode helicopters out to the landing site and carefully ... a thruster would have a great impact on OSIRIS-REx’s orbit around the asteroid,” he said in a news release.

and then scientists picked a landing site. [Read more: Utah right place to land the Bennu asteroid sample, NASA OSIRIS-REx leaders say] After mapping the asteroid using technology developed and ...

Related: Dramatic sampling shows asteroid Bennu is nothing like scientists expected The OSIRIS-REx return capsule is ... In preparation for landing day, multiple simulations are being carried ...