the material is almost certainly primitive and similar to charcoal in color, appearing much as it did soon after the formation of the Solar System. “One of the key objectives of OSIRIS-REx is to ...

After months of anticipation, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved a significant ... believed to be a primitive space rock dating back to the early days of our solar system, has the potential ...

The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer — better known as OSIRIS-REx — has now ... ounces (227 grams) of primitive asteroid in its clutches.

Blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in September 2016, the van-sized OSIRIS-REx (short for "Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer") spent the ...

The OSIRIS-REx press event begins today (Aug. 30 ... The "origins" part, for example, refers to Bennu's status as a primitive, carbon-rich asteroid, the type that may have seeded Earth with ...

NASA's OSIRIS ... OSIRIS-REx project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Despite its potential interaction with water, Bennu remains a chemically primitive ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an ...

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life. transcript NASA ...

OSIRIS-REx as seen by the ESA’s OGS telescope in Tenerife. Image: ESA NASA’s $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission launched to space in September 2016 with a simple, albeit ambitious, objective ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory waited seven years for the return of its NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx. The spacecraft launched in 2016 with the goal of ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016. The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the ...

OSIRIS-REx's first target, Bennu, is an 85.5 million-ton (77.5 million metric tons) space rock that is on track to swoop within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) of Earth's orbit between ...