NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Released from the OSIRIS-REx mothership four hours ... and to make preparations to ship the samples to a more sophisticated laboratory at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Monday.

Inside the capsule is 2 ounces (60 grams) of rocky space rubble from Bennu ... A later burst from OSIRIS-REx's thrusters later lifted it from Bennu, and the ship completed a number of flyovers ...

capsule was dropped off by its much larger OSIRIS-REx mother ship as that spacecraft went whizzing ... preparing to send it off to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The scientists there will ...

The asteroid probe set two records: Bennu is the smallest body a spacecraft has ever orbited (the space rock has a diameter of 1,640 feet, or 500 meters), and OSIRIS-REx performed the closest ...

then ship it to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Within a week or so, it will be partially disassembled in a lab, and the OSIRIS-REx team will see its contents for the first time.

An illustration of OSIRIS-REx returning its sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab This maneuever will be tricky too, as Mike Moreau ...

IAC– Daniel López The OGS telescope is used to observe targets in the solar system such as space debris and near-Earth asteroids. That’s appropriate as OSIRIS-REx has already visited one near ...

In October 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made history by touching down on the asteroid Bennu and grabbing a sample of rock and debris. New analysis of this encounter has revealed the probe ...

A secretive Space Force ship has returned to earth after spending 434 days in orbit conducting mysterious tests. The Boeing-made X-37B vessel was quietly launched by SpaceX in 2023 from NASA’s ...

in the U.K. Tim Rex in Space follows a Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex) named Tim, his big brother Tommy, little sister Tia, and triceratops bestie Kai as “they tackle kid-shaped adventures with dino ...

Tuesday's flight, SpaceX's 10th so far this year, was the first carrying a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship for NASA. The space agency relies on SpaceX Falcon 9s and Northrop Grumman's Antares ...