Since then, OSIRIS-REx has been snapping photos as it puts on the brakes to learn as much as it can before arrival. Nolan said he was very pleased at how accurate his computer model of Bennu’s s ...

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

Carrying the Tianwen-2 asteroid probe, China's Long March-3B carrier rocket takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch ...

The samples OSIRIS-REx brings back could be key to designing ... now called the Nice model, which posits that the solar system began with many more small bodies than it has now, and that Jupiter ...

The Sept. 24 landing of the OSIRIS-REx space capsule was a historic success, but it wasn’t perfect. NASA has confirmed that the capsule’s parachute system did not work properly during its ...

Today, that theory is getting tested by astrobiologist Dante Loretta, who most recently captained NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. That is the mission we've covered in previous episodes, which sent a ...

Similar to how researchers gained valuable data just from the Hayabusa2 collection process, atmospheric scientists didn’t even need to open the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule to learn ...

The spacecraft will employ a touch-and-go sampling technique, similar to Japan's Hayabusa 2 and NASA's OSIRIS-REx, to collect surface materials and then fly back to Earth's orbit, where its ...

ChatGPT isn't a monolith. Since OpenAI first released the buzzy chatbot in 2022, it has rolled out what seems like a new model every few months, using a confusing panoply of names. A number of ...

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 ...

Michel also served as a coinvestigator on missions by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2, respectively — that returned asteroid samples to Earth.

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 ...