Dworkin said the OSIRIS-REx team has 12 major hypotheses about the sample. They want to further analyze it and interpret the findings so far of the magnetite, clay, carbonate, water, and other ...

This image of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule still attached to the spacecraft’s instrument deck was captured by the spacecraft’s StowCam camera on Sept. 23 at 10:37:55 a.m. EDT (14:37:55 ...

OSIRIS-REx collected the sample from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020. (Image credit: NASA/JSC) OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and arrived at Bennu , a 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) near ...

NASA officials in Houston displayed images of salt-and-pepper chunks of rock and particles of dark space dust that were brought back to ... Osiris-Rex’s sample return capsule descending toward ...

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 ...

An image from NASA TV shows the OSIRIS-REx sample collector with sample material from asteroid Bennu in Houston, Texas, October 11, 2023. NASA TV/AFP via Getty Images ...

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 ...

After a seven-year trip, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample capsule containing rocks captured from the asteroid Bennu, and now NASA has shared the first results of its tests on the samples.

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 ...

This series of images, captured on Apr. 14 during the first rehearsal of the OSIRIS-REx mission’s sample collection event, shows the SamCam instrument’s field of view as the spacecraft ...

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 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe captured photos during the release of its return capsule last month, preserving the historic moment for posterity. Those images, which the space agency released on ...