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Members of the OSIRIS-REx science team will be honored during Saturday’s football game at Arizona Stadium, a little over a month after they scored a spectacular touchdown of their own.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
Do you want to throw the perfect OSIRIS-REx watch party, but you don’t know what snacks to serve? University of Arizona executive chef Michael Omo has you covered with a full menu of “O-Rex ...
It wouldn't have been limited to just Earth. Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates 25 Worst Movies of All ...
Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by OSIRIS‐REx. Meteoritics & Planetary Science , 2024; DOI: 10.1111/maps.14227 Cite This Page : ...
Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, discusses his next final frontier. By Katrina Miller Last fall, a NASA spacecraft named ...
The OSIRIS-REx capsule return capsule and its main parachute after landing in the Utah desert Sept. 24. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber WASHINGTON — The drogue parachute on the OSIRIS-REx sample ...
In 2016, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft traveled to an asteroid called Bennu, collected 250 grams of rocks and dust, and then traveled 1.2 billion miles to return the samples to Earth. In ...
The preliminary analysis of the contents of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security -- Regolith Explorer) mission was unveiled at the Johnson Space ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe captured photos during the release of its return capsule last month, preserving the historic moment for posterity. Those images, which the space agency released on ...