WATCH: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returns an asteroid soil sample to Earth. By Bella Isaacs-Thomas. Oct 21. WATCH: NASA releases first images from OSIRIS-REx touchdown on asteroid.

The OSIRIS-REx mission used some pretty fascinating tech to autonomously acquire rocks and dust from an asteroid called Bennu. Asteroids can act as time capsules, and Bennu reflects what was ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission was an audacious attempt to land on an asteroid, capture a sample and bring it back to Earth. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now.

The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in September 2016 and reached a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu in December 2018. After nearly two years of observations, the spacecraft landed on the asteroid and ...

Combined with the samples already collected, OSIRIS-REx returned a total of 4.29 ounces (121.6 grams) of material from asteroid Bennu — that's more than double the mission's goal and the largest ...

OSIRIS-Rex is the first U.S. mission to retrieve a sample of an asteroid. Not since the Apollo moon rocks, collected between 1969 and 1972, has NASA brought back space souvenirs of this magnitude.

But beyond that, Bennu could hold information that would help unlock our solar system’s secrets, like how it began and where life originated. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016 to collect a ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission used some pretty fascinating tech to autonomously acquire rocks and dust from an asteroid called Bennu. Asteroids can act as time capsules, ...