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Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the grayish, lumpy object and get it really close to the surface so the probe could pluck up some space rock samples with a robotic arm.

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the ...

Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier ... told reporters as the space agency focuses on making sure no more is lost. Sampling an asteroid: This image sequence ...

Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier ... This meant that samples were spilling out from the craft. But now the space agency says the rock samples have been safely ...

Credit: NASA Studies of the pristine asteroid sample material returned to Earth by NASA’s Osiris-Rex ... of America's space program through news reporting. Osiris-Rex Asteroid Samples Shed ...

Glavin said the ones from Bennu are valid — "real extraterrestrial organic material formed in space and not a result of contamination from Earth." FILE - OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule on ground.