the material is almost certainly primitive and similar to charcoal in color, appearing much as it did soon after the formation of the Solar System. “One of the key objectives of OSIRIS-REx is to ...

After months of anticipation, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved a significant ... believed to be a primitive space rock dating back to the early days of our solar system, has the potential ...

The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer — better known as OSIRIS-REx — has now ... ounces (227 grams) of primitive asteroid in its clutches.

Blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in September 2016, the van-sized OSIRIS-REx (short for "Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer") spent the ...

The OSIRIS-REx press event begins today (Aug. 30 ... The "origins" part, for example, refers to Bennu's status as a primitive, carbon-rich asteroid, the type that may have seeded Earth with ...

Magnesium-sodium phosphate found in NASA's OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample suggests Bennu, seen above, could have originated from an ancient, primitive ocean world. Credit: NASA What the team found was ...

NASA's OSIRIS ... OSIRIS-REx project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Despite its potential interaction with water, Bennu remains a chemically primitive ...

Nearly two years ago, NASA made history when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly “tagged” 101955 Bennu to collect a regolith sample from the surface of the asteroid. While the mission won’t ...

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life. transcript NASA ...

It’s the first time the agency has accomplished such a feat. Seven years after launching to space, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth Sunday to deliver the pristine sample from the near ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016.