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In just under a year, on Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx sample collector — a basket full of asteroid dust and rocks — will return to Earth's surface.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Learn more about it in this NASA explainer. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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 ...

OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:55 a.m. EDT (1455 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target.

The spacecraft launched in 2016. It has traveled about 3.86 billion miles, according to NASA. OSIRIS-REx will next travel to the asteroid Apophis as part of the extended OSIRIS-APEX mission.

Osiris-Rex, the mothership, rocketed away on the $1 billion mission in 2016. It reached Bennu two years later and, using a long stick vacuum, grabbed rubble from the small roundish space rock in 2020.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will soon bid asteroid Bennu farewell. NASA has announced that OSIRIS-REx will start its journey back to our planet on May 10th, two-and-a-half years after it ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) robotic deep-space probe is returning from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On May 10, 2021 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Susan Collins' Re-Election Prospects Dim 10 Things You Should Never ...