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

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016. The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the ...

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

Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier this week, say the collection operation may have performed too well. Pictures beamed back to Earth show a rock has wedged open ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have been analyzing it ever since. International scientific teams have ...

The rocks and dust safely delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023 contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to make proteins, according to the first in-depth study of ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned with samples from Bennu in 2023. Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid. The samples contained the building blocks of life and provide more evidence that asteroids ...

Credit: NASA Studies of the pristine asteroid sample material returned to Earth by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission from the asteroid Bennu reveal further evidence of water, organics and other ...

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 grams. NASA's Osiris-Rex probe has brought a total of 121.6 grams of ...

Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier this week, were worried after a rock wedged open the door of a container. This meant that samples were spilling out from the craft.

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016.