The mechanism is kept inside a glove box to prevent any loss, ... and potential arc movement,” explained Nicole Lunning, OSIRIS-REx curator at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, ...

NASA is struggling to open a capsule containing precious asteroid samples from the OSIRIS-REx mission. Luckily, there is plenty of material to study on the outside of the container.

The OSIRIS-REx mission achieved a significant milestone as its asteroid sample return capsule safely touched down on Earth. With the capsule now in the hands of NASA's Johnson Space Center, the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex capsule carrying an asteroid sample successfully landed in a Utah desert on Sept. 24, ... Right now, it's in a clean room glove box at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

It’s official: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snagged 121.6 grams of pristine space rocks when it bopped the asteroid Bennu four years ago, more than double the mission’s official science goal ...

NASA staff practice how they will handle asteroid samples with a mock glove box at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA Johnson/Bill Stafford HOUSTON—No strangers to ...

The first U.S. asteroid sample, delivered by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to Earth on Sept. 24, has arrived at its permanent home at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where it will be cared ...

A new OSIRIS-REx Curation Laboratory in Houston awaits delivery of the asteroid samples, which will first be inspected at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Stubborn screws weren’t NASA’s biggest concern when the project began. There were countless ways that the OSIRIS-REx mission — named for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...

The returning OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to return samples from asteroid Bennu in September, but NASA is already running rehearsals to get it right.

The OSIRIS-REX spacecraft stowed the rock and dust it collected from Bennu, setting itself up to return the sample to our planet. By Kenneth Chang A NASA spacecraft 200 million miles away from ...

NASA has called upon the Vatican for a Hail Mary. A Jesuit astronomer helped build a crucial instrument for the OSIRIS-Rex mission.