This weekend will see the landing of NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx. The spacecraft visited asteroid Bennu to study, photograph, and scoop up a sample from it ...

OSIRIS-REx is an ongoing mission. It returned samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, and is now moving on to study asteroid Apophis in 2029. When you purchase through links on our ...

24 sample delivery NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe put itself on course toward ... where teams of NASA and U.S. military personnel will be standing by to recover it. When astronomers studied OSIRIS ...

OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect an asteroid sample and bring it back to Earth. On Sunday morning, the asteroid material successfully reached Earth's surface, landing in the Utah ...

Seven years after launching to space, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth Sunday to deliver the pristine sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve ... called the Sample Return Capsule for delivery to Earth.

The NASA spacecraft almost sunk into the loosely packed surface when it descended to collect its sample in 2020. This helped ...

The Bennu sample contained about 4.7 percent carbon, as measured by the Carnegie Institution for Science, according to Daniel Glavin, the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis lead at NASA’s Goddard Space ...

NASA has succeeded in returning its first sample of an asteroid to Earth, as the OSIRIS-REx mission released its capsule containing a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu early this morning.

OSIRIS-REx briefly landed on Bennu, collecting the first U.S. asteroid sample on Oct. 20, 2020. “What you’re really looking at here is, it’s almost like a droplet of liquid,” Lauretta told ...

Lockheed Martin system safety engineer Victoria Theim checks out the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule after its Utah desert landing. (NASA Photo / Keegan Barber) Seven years and 4 billion miles af ...