The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...

Erica R. Jawin, a geologist at the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, was part of the OSIRIS-REx team during the mission's orbital phase.

OSIRIS-REx's asteroid samples don't have this issue, as they remained sealed within their spacecraft upon returning to Earth, where they were immediately transferred to a highly controlled ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned with 4 ounces of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2023. The samples contained black grains and were dispersed to two separate research ...

The Osiris-Rex touchdown will be followed by the launch of another asteroid hunter on Oct. 5. Both the NASA spacecraft and its target — a metal asteroid — are named Psyche.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life were astonishingly widespread in the early solar system ...

“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life.” This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, was taken on December 2, 2018 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles.

Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples New discoveries from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission were 'a complete surprise.' Tom Hawking Jan 29, 2025 11:00 AM EST ...

OSIRIS-REx's asteroid samples don't have this issue, as they remained sealed within their spacecraft upon returning to Earth, where they were immediately transferred to a highly controlled ...