How OSIRIS-REx's capsule could hold keys to 'building blocks of life' on Earth. The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away.

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample canister is no longer holding up science after the curation team at Johnson Space Center removed two fasteners preventing access to the full sample from asteroid ...

They showed images of Bennu snapped by OSIRIS-REx on Oct. 29 from 205 miles away — a little less than the distance between Los Angeles and Las Vegas — using the multi-functional PolyCam camera ...

The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...

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.A team ...

This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 3. A total of 345 PolyCam images were stitched together to produce ...

Osiris-Rex launched in 2016 and arrived at Bennu a couple of years later, making observations at a distance. From those remote findings, it identified carbonate minerals in the asteroid, ...

The OSIRIS-REx Bennu sample now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. In this image, you can see the specimen before the container was sealed. The sample’s official ...

Scientists confirm OSIRIS-REx brought home at least 70.3 grams of material from asteroid Bennu, surpassing its goal of 60 grams. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

OSIRIS-REx is renamed OSIRIS-APEX and sent to Apophis, a 1,100-foot-wide asteroid expected to pass Earth at a distance of 20,000 miles in 2029. Jan. 19, 2024 : TAGSAM is opened and Bennu samples ...

This set of images shows the asteroid Bennu rotating for one full revolution. Over a four-hour and 11-minute period on Nov. 2, the PolyCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft acquired a 2.5 ...