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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...