The OSIRIS-REx mission team removed the initial lid of the sample canister, which was placed inside a glovebox to keep out contaminants, on Tuesday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the ...

In October 2020, OSIRIS-REx landed on near-Earth asteroid Bennu and snagged a sample from its surface.Scientists expected to find extra bits of the asteroid in the canister outside the TAGSAM, an ...

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert on Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.

This photo provided by NASA on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, shows the outside of the Osiris-Rex sample collector with material from asteroid Bennu at middle right.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, ... to prevent any of Earth’s atmosphere from entering the sample canister and contaminating it.

To capture these samples, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approached asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and extended an arm containing the canister (called TAGSAM, or the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition ...

The canister is expected to be opened late Monday or on Tuesday at the earliest, said Nicole Lunning, NASA’s lead curator for the Osiris-REx sample. The sample canister is designed to survive ...

NASA Opens Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample Canister, Revealing Cosmic Bounty Small bits grabbed from a space rock in 2020 touched down in the Utah desert on Sunday.

Workers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston remove the lid of the OSIRIS-REx sample return canister inside a glove box to prevent contamination in September 2023.

OSIRIS-REx's asteroid-sample canister just creaked open for the first time in more than seven years. Scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston lifted the canister's outer lid on ...

On Sept. 24, OSIRIS-REx ended its nearly 4 billion-mile journey, exploring the solar system and gathering samples from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, by releasing its sample capsule.

What to know about NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission . ... The canister cover will be ejected at 102,000 feet and the drogue parachutes will then be deployed to stabilize the capsule.