The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt ... NASA livestreame the landing. The spacecraft is powered by solar panels.

Nicole Lunning, lead OSIRIS-REx sample curator -- who is responsible for taking care of the sample after landing -- said it ... after collecting samples from Comet Wild 2 and interstellar dust.

The successful landing of the ... collected samples of comet dust and solar winds, respectively — have also landed at UTTR. With the jettison and return of the OSIRIS-REx sample capsule to ...

Rather than wastefully end its life in a crash landing into Earth or other body, OSIRIS-REx is now on a trajectory ... dust samples from the tails of the comet 81P/Wild. The modern sample return ...

Earth's water is older than the planet itself and was probably brought to our planet by asteroid and comet ... which OSIRIS-REx touched down upon on Oct. 20, 2020. To stick the landing and not ...

Scientists with NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission are confident that the planned Sept. 24 asteroid sample landing will go as planned. NASA's first asteroid sample mission has landed at post offices two ...

Infrared sensors on the ground detected the heat signature of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s sample ... aiming for a parachute landing in the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training ...

Seven years after it left for the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is returning with a celestial souvenir. On the morning of Sunday, September 24, as it passes by Earth ...

Though this will be NASA’s first sample return of an asteroid, the Stardust mission in 2006 successfully returned samples of comet Wild-2, also to Utah (SN: 8/14/14). OSIRIS-REx’s mission ...

Media cameras record a TV live feed of the successful landing of the Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return ... The Stardust spacecraft successfully delivered comet dust in 2006. NASA’s plans to ...

OSIRIS-REx team preps for September landing of Bennu bits May, who holds a PhD in astronomy, had previously collaborated with the science teams behind Europe's comet-chasing Rosetta probe and NASA ...