The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.

Shot into space as part of the agency's OSIRIS-REx mission in 2016, the capsule was enclosed for years within a spacecraft that made a 4-billion-mile-long journey to reach Bennu. Once on the ...

Scientists said they got more material than expected from the Osiris-Rex mission during its seven ... It’s taking us a little longer to get inside, but the view so far is amazing.” ...

The fragments were from a world all their own—pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected and returned to Earth for analysis by the OSIRIS-REx mission ... microscope view of the minerals in the ...

For more than half a decade, the members of this mission faced multiple technical challenges: building, testing, and launching the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ... In this view, as Bennu traveled in ...

there was *** one second delay and then we fired that high pressure nitrogen gas and the surface just exploded in October of 2020. The Lockheed Martin built spacecraft called Osiris Rex made ...