NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

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The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has been given a side job during its seven-year cruise to study and sample an asteroid named Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx is a New Frontiers mission, an opportunity NASA provides to universities and institutes to compete for a contract to explore the solar system, led by an individual principal investigator.

The study is one of several research papers included in SRL 's upcoming Special Focus section on the OSIRIS-REx Re-entry, a sample capsule from a mission to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu that ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the expense of the other?" ...

Tantalizing tastes of asteroids have already been robotically sent back to Earth, by missions such as NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security ...

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