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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

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A NASA explorer spacecraft returned to Earth Sunday morning after nearly seven years spent in space on the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect pieces of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu, which scientists ...

NASA retrieved the samples and secured them in a clean room, marking a successful end to OSIRIS-REx primary mission. Imagine arriving back at Earth after traveling through space for seven years ...

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 ...

"That would be just heartbreaking, right?" says Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, who compared that scenario to fumbling a ...

Moreau is one of more than two dozen CU Boulder alumni to be part of the OSIRIS-REx mission. Find out more: Space probe scoops up CU Boulder graduates (Dec. 2018) Probe returning to Earth with ...

Thanks to that successful landing, OSIRIS-REx is now returning from its mission with a 2-ounce sample (60 grams) of Bennu's surface that could contain extraterrestrial precursors to life on our ...

Now, a mission by NASA to collect a piece of ancient ... Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at ...

First conceived of by OSIRIS REx mission leader Dr. Dante Lauretta, a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona, in 2004, NASA launched the probe in 2016.