NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

A progressive zoom-in on asteroid Bennu, as seen by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during its approach in late 2018. Now Bennu is far in the rearview, and samples from the asteroid have been freshly ...

NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx mission, on its way back to Earth from its visit to asteroid Bennu, will take a trip to another space rock. The probe is set to spend 18 months studying the ...

Despite the challenges, OSIRIS-REx collected much more of the asteroid material than the mission aimed for, and the spacecraft will drop off this cargo at Earth on Sunday, Sept. 24.

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.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe delivers sample of asteroid — and moves on to next target. by Alan Boyle on September 24, 2023 at 9:55 am September 24, 2023 at 4:03 pm. Share 108 Tweet Share Reddit Email.

A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector, with material from the asteroid Bennu in the middle right. NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold ...

NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. An asteroid sample collected by NASA has touched down on Earth, ...

After grabbing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu on October 20th, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully stored the material inside itself, with plans to return to Earth in 2023.

The mission is less than two weeks away from fulfilling its biggest goal – collecting a piece of a pristine, hydrated, carbon-rich asteroid. OSIRIS-REx will depart Bennu in 2021 and deliver the ...

The agency’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spiraled down to the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu this afternoon (Oct. 20) to grab material that mission team members hope harbors clues about the ...