OSIRIS-REx follows up on earlier sample return missions — including Stardust, which brought back samples of cometary and interstellar dust in 2006 under the leadership of University of ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

After extensive mapping to identify a safe sample-collection point, OSIRIS-REx slowly descended toward the surface on Oct. 20, 2020, its pie pan-shaped "Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism ...

Asteroid dirt, rocks and debris go flying after the sample collection arm of NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe fires pressurized gas into the regolith of the asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020.

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx for short, is the first spacecraft to return with an asteroid sample collection in ...

The mission, Osiris-Rex, concluded in September when a capsule containing the collection of asteroid samples re-entered through the Earth’s atmosphere and was recovered in the Utah desert.

Spacecraft will attempt to collect sample next summer and then return it to earth. UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission picks collection spot on asteroid Bennu Skip to main content Skip to main content ...

When the OSIRIS-REx sample collection mechanism dipped toward the rock to gather a few asteroid pieces, scientists watching were surprised to see Bennu wasn't a nice, solid object like you might ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, ... NASA is quick to clarify that they haven’t found life, but that this collection of amino acids, ...

On Sept. 24, OSIRIS-REx ended its nearly 4 billion-mile journey, exploring the solar system and gathering samples from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, by releasing its sample capsule.

Sample collection teams—NASA experts and academic mission scientists, US military representatives, and scientists and engineers from Lockheed Martin, which built the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft—have ...

NASA returned its first sample of an asteroid to Earth last year, ... The issue was with two of the 25 fasteners that held the sample inside the collection ... NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation ...