Over millennia, this patch of desert has seen many uses ... The same Colorado building that houses OSIRIS-REx’s mission control contains the cavernous room where engineers build other NASA ...

24 landing of the OSIRIS-REx space capsule was a historic success ... 24 touchdown marked the dramatic end of a 7-year, $1.1 billion space mission — conceived at and led by the University ...

NASA does have one mission going to Apophis after the flyby. The main spacecraft from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, rechristened OSIRIS-APEX, will arrive at Apophis shortly after ...

Japan's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission lasted six years from launch through its return to Earth, while NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission made the trip to an asteroid and back in seven years.

UA scientists leading a seven-year NASA mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth celebrated a “happy week” for the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft by releasing the first images taken by its ...

The TAG approach was used by both NASA’s OSIRIS-REx and JAXA’s Hayabusa2. China has not released official detailed plans for the mission, such as mission timelines, the amount of samples to be ...

In 2020, the first U.S. asteroid retrieval mission, OSIRIS-REx, brought back samples from the Bennu asteroid. Kamoʻoalewa is known as a quasi-satellite of Earth, a close celestial neighbour that ...

China is set to launch its first asteroid sampling mission, Tianwen 2 ... similar to Japan's Hayabusa 2 and NASA's OSIRIS-REx, to collect surface materials and then fly back to Earth's orbit ...

(CNN) — China has launched an ambitious mission to study two intriguing ... NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2, respectively — that returned asteroid ...