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 ...

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 ...

Emma Roberts stars as Rex in Space Cadet. She’s a bartender who has the dream of going to space. How do you get there? Maybe by doctoring your qualifications and having a best friend willing to ...

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 ...

Nasa is expected to break new ground in space research on Sunday with its Osiris-Rex mission. The US space agency will bring home the largest asteroid sample ever returned to Earth, but what is ...

A space capsule from NASA’s Osiris-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu landed in Utah on Sunday. The sample of rocks and dust—the largest ever collected from an asteroid—could help scientists ...

Twelve years after OSIRIS-REx was chosen to be NASA's ambitious asteroid-sampling endeavor, the mission's probe is set to deliver more than 2 ounces (60 grams) of material from a space rock named ...

Space Cadet, directed by Liz W. Garcia and starring Emma Roberts, tells the story of Tiffany “Rex” Simpson. From a young age, Rex loved science and dreamed of going to space, inspired by ...