In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission made contact with the asteroid Bennu for about 4.7 seconds, roughly half as long as it took Neil Armstrong to announce his “one small step for ...

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OSIRIS-REx was designed for a straightforward sample mission, but Bennu had other plans. Instead of a smooth surface, NASA found rugged boulders and unpredictable gravity. Adjustments had to be ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission traveled to the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu and sent home a small capsule containing a sample in September 2023. Released from the OSIRIS-REx craft, the sample return ...

Vertical has acquired North American rights to William Kaufman’s sci-fi thriller “Osiris,” starring Max Martini, Brianna Hildebrand, LaMonica Garrett, Linds Edwards and Linda Hamilton.

Photograph by PATRICK H. CORKERY, LOCKHEED MARTIN Launched in 2016, OSIRIS-REx had to orbit the sun twice to catch up with Bennu, which is more than 200 million miles away on this fateful October day.