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.

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...

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

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex probe has brought a total of 121.6 grams of material from the asteroid Bennu to Earth, more than twice as much as planned. This has now been announced by the US space agency.

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the ...

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 ...

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission ... Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, could finally open the return ...