The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for safeguarding pristine samples of an asteroid delivered to Earth. When two fasteners got stuck on the canister ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission brought back 4.29 ounces of rocks and dust from Bennu, making it the largest asteroid sample collected in space.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has reached the Bennu asteroid after a two-year journey! Find out why this mission is so important, how it will collect asteroid samples, and the science behind ...

“We are overjoyed with the success,” NASA’s chief OSIRIS-REx sample curator, Nicole Lunning, said in a statement. It took more than seven years and roughly $1 billion to bring back a sample ...

After an extremely long journey from asteroid Bennu and a complicated extraction from its canister, NASA is getting exciting data from its first ever sample collected from an asteroid.The OSIRIS ...

NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule ...

2.9K. Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

This helped OSIRIS-REx to scoop up 121.6 g (4.29 oz), far more than the amount that would have made the mission a success. By returning the sample to Earth, the asteroid's chemical profile was ...

We are just 15 minutes away from the OSIRIS-REx sample return, a journey of seven years, ... We think we've got a lot of sample in that science canister, and we can't wait to crack into it.

New discoveries from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission were 'a complete surprise.' ... OREX-800044-101, the sample that was analysed by the Japanese members of the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team.

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these ...