SpaceNews

OSIRIS-REx Completed at Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft is now undergoing environmental testing at the company’s Space Systems facilities near Denver. OSIRIS-REx ...
CNN

An asteroid sample is about to land on Earth. Here’s what to expect

Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swings by ...
Popular Mechanics

It Took 20 Years to Steal This Asteroid Dust. NASA Did It—and Found Water and Carbon Inside.

On September 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the Utah desert, delivering an asteroid sample that NASA has spent nearly 20 years trying to retrieve. Two weeks after touchdown, NASA has ...
SpaceNews

OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the ...
Time

How NASA Captured a Piece of the Solar System's Past From an Ancient Asteroid

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Forbes

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Returns Safely To Earth—Scientists Hope It Will Bring Evidence Of How Life Began

A NASA explorer spacecraft returned to Earth Sunday morning after nearly seven years spent in space on the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect pieces of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu, which scientists say ...
Digital Trends

How to watch final moments of NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission

In just a few days from now, NASA will oversee the final moments of its groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx mission, which marks the first time for the agency to bring back rock samples collected from a distant ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat

OSIRIS-REx to search for Trojan Asteroids

The University of Arizona men’s basketball team (22-0, 9-0 in Big 12) returns home to take on Oklahoma State University (15-6, 3-5 in Big 12) on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. The Wildcats have officially ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Aerospace grad has leading role on OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission

Moreau is one of more than two dozen CU Boulder alumni to be part of the OSIRIS-REx mission. Find out more: Space probe scoops up CU Boulder graduates (Dec. 2018) Probe returning to Earth with ...
Phys.org

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft views sample return capsule's departure

After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security—Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected ...
CNN

A long-awaited sample from a near-Earth asteroid is about to land in the US

Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An asteroid sample stowed inside a NASA ...