Seven years and 4 billion miles after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a precious sample of one near-Earth asteroid — and is now ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

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The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with it came a treasure trove of data. An international collaboration ...

The sample canister which landed in the Utah desert on 24 September has been opened but its inner chamber used by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft to store the asteroid fragments for the journey home has ...

The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. Nasa wants to learn more about the mountainous object, not least because it has an outside ...

As the destination for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid retrieval mission, additional X-band radiometric and optical navigation tracking data added even more trajectory precision. The idea is that any ...

These objects are the focus of many space missions (NEAR Shoemaker, Hayabusa1, Chang'E 2, Hayabusa2, OSIRIS-Rex, DART, Hera, etc.). In particular, it appears that the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu ...

NASA/Keegan Barber Dante Lauretta joined the OSIRIS-REx mission in 2004. NASA/Kim Shiflett Daniella DellaGiustina is overseeing the next phase of the mission. First, the team had to select an ...

Read Transcript > SCIENCE Galveston’s Texas-Size Plan to Stop the Next Big Storm Have you ever felt embarrassed by the need to carry a towel, or even a fresh shirt, with you during the most ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returns safely: How the bold mission happened and what scientists hope to learn NASA's scientific space mission to the Bennu asteroid, OSIRIS-REx, brings back a record volume ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 25 of the best ...