“Who thinks of stuff like this?” Later that afternoon, he stood to introduce a crowd of students to OSIRIS-REx, a $1 billion mission NASA hoped could help explain the origins of the solar ...

Jason Dworkin, project scientist for the OSIRIS-Rex mission, thinks there may be ... the tool won't work if the plug and outlet don't match. A diagram of a left-handed and right-handed version ...

A diagram of left-handed and right-handed versions of the amino ... Dworkin is the project scientist on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which extracted samples from the asteroid Bennu and delivered them to ...

Those tables are missing from the new RFI, along with a diagram showing an ... NASA already has plans to use OSIRIS-APEX, the main spacecraft from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission ...

This orbital diagram from CNEOS’ close approach viewer ... The sample was collected during the OSIRIS-REx mission. Getty Images Such a collision would trigger an explosion equal to 24 nuclear ...

NASA is struggling to open a capsule containing precious asteroid samples from the OSIRIS-REx mission. Luckily, there is plenty of material to study on the outside of the container. When you ...

The preliminary analysis of the contents of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security -- Regolith Explorer) mission was unveiled at the Johnson Space ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe captured photos during the release of its return capsule last month, preserving the historic moment for posterity. Those images, which the space agency released on ...

The capsule was released from the robotic spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, which was launched into space seven years ago and collected the sample in October 2020. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft did not return ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft has released its first asteroid samples, which are now heading towards Earth and expected to land in the Utah desert. The samples, collected from the carbon-rich ...

The capsule, which landed in the Utah desert at 3.52pm, contained around 250g of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu as part of NASA's Osiris-Rex mission. Experts say the carbon-rich ...