The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

A year after receiving the largest asteroid sample via NASA's OSIRIS-REx, significant findings about early life and the solar ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. This remarkable ...

Here’s how it works. On Sept. 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission made U.S. history by returning samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth after seven years in deep space. NASA is just one week ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has once again captured the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts alike, delivering ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After over seven years journeying through space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx has finally ...

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 ...

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid. Now, the historic mission is coming to an end seven years later. The sample capsule from OSIRIS-REx ...