OSIRIS-REx, however, does have its own reasons to boast. For instance, the first-ever space-rock-sample-return mission was performed by Japan's aerospace agency, JAXA, which delivered about 5 ...

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.

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid. Now, the historic mission is coming to an end seven years later. The sample capsule from OSIRIS-REx ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission includes multiple objectives ... the spacecraft’s final maneuver — and up-close-and-personal sample retrieval — a lot less risky, but that’s not what Bennu had ...

This project's international partnerships include the Canadian Space Agency's OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter instrument and an ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces ... China plans to launch an asteroid sample return mission this year. Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the ...

"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," the statement reads WASHINGTON, January 30. /TASS/. Samples of rock ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission is ongoing, and the spacecraft’s trip back to Earth with its sample payload will take years. At present, it’s expected to return its samples in late September of 2023 ...

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, ...

This figure illustrates key molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, which were delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023. Bennu is a ...

A billion-dollar spacecraft, a daring deep-space mission, and one of humanity’s biggest questions: Where did we come from? NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a ...