NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission brought pieces of space rock Bennu to Earth in 2023. An analysis of these samples has revealed interesting data.

An all-new, one-hour documentary revealing the incredible challenges, surprises and human triumphs of OSIRIS-REx, the nearly twenty-year space mission to return samples from an ancient asteroid ...

NASA returned its first sample of an asteroid to Earth last year, but getting at the full sample proved difficult due to a couple of troublesome fasteners.

The mission, Osiris-Rex, concluded in September when a capsule containing the collection of asteroid samples re-entered through the Earth’s atmosphere and was recovered in the Utah desert.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Breaks Record For Largest Asteroid Sample Ever Collected In Space The material collected on Bennu is more than double the mission goal.

The world is waiting to learn what the asteroid sample returned by the OSIRIS-REx mission will reveal, and two University of Arizona aerospace engineering students are helping discover the answers ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has reached the Bennu asteroid after a two-year journey! Find out why this mission is so important, how it will collect asteroid samples, and the science behind ...

OSIRIS-REx's van-sized craft visited Bennu, scraped and collected material from the asteroid’s surface and sealed it into a 3-foot-wide container equipped with a heat shield, called the Sample ...

A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for safeguarding pristine samples of ...

When the OSIRIS-REx sample collection mechanism dipped toward the rock to gather a few asteroid pieces, scientists watching were surprised to see Bennu wasn't a nice, solid object like you might ...

On Sept. 24, OSIRIS-REx ended its nearly 4 billion-mile journey, exploring the solar system and gathering samples from near-Earth asteroid Bennu by releasing its sample capsule.