UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Utah, Sept. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a rapid and red-hot descent through Earth's atmosphere, NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touched down in the ...

NASA’s live coverage of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) capsule landing starts at 10 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. MDT) and will ...

After traveling billions of miles to Bennu and back, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released its sample capsule toward Earth’s atmosphere at 3:42 a.m. Tucson time.

It's finally time to look inside the sample-return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Scientists were locked out of the container for months due to a technical malfunction.

Meanwhile, OSIRIS-REx is now on its way to its next asteroid target, Apophis, which it will reach in April 2029. This article was originally published on Jan. 23, 2024 ...

Sept. 24, 2023: Sample Return Capsule lands on Earth. OSIRIS-REx is renamed OSIRIS-APEX and sent to Apophis, a 1,100-foot-wide asteroid expected to pass Earth at a distance of 20,000 miles in 2029.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission brought pieces of space rock Bennu to Earth in 2023. An analysis of these samples has revealed interesting data.

On Sept. 24, the U of A-led OSIRIS-REx mission safely delivered a capsule filled with 4.29 ounces of rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu, roughly twice the amount required by NASA.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is coming to a close this September. Scientists are currently rehearsing plans for receiving the capsule upon its return.

Credit: NASA NASA’s OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to retrieve fragments of an asteroid, which arrived in September 2023. There was just one small issue: NASA technicians couldn’t open the ...

The OSIRIS-REx capsule has been located. The OSIRIS-REx helicopter team has confirmed the location of the capsule containing the Bennu asteroid sample. The capsule touched down at about 10:52AM ET.

A rendering of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx capsule entering Earth's atmosphere and landing in the Utah Test and Training Range Sept. 24, 2023. The capsule brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu. (NASA) ...