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 ...

Goddard oversees a number of key NASA missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the OSIRIS-REx mission that collected samples from an asteroid.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Susan Collins' Re-Election Prospects Dim 10 Things You Should Never ...

Lockheed Martin offers a streamlined plan to save NASA's Mars Sample Return mission by cutting costs and using proven space technology.

A new book tells the story of the mastermind who directed NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx mission Diane Tedeschi Initially, your entire group was responsible for selecting the landing site. Ultimately ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission's samples from asteroid Bennu have revealed evidence of alkaline brines and observation of 14 of the 20 amino acids and all of the DNA and RNA nucleobases, suggesting ...

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission was planned decades ago. In 2016, a spacecraft launched. In 2018, it arrived at Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Sears Tower is tall.

Japan's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission lasted six years from launch through its return to Earth, while NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission made the trip to an asteroid and back in seven years.