The capsule’s landing is a major win for a NASA mission called Osiris-Rex, which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resources Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer.

The OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule, its outer skin charred by the heat of re-entry, was hauled from the landing site to a nearby air-filtered clean room for initial disassembly.

Scientists with NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission are confident that the planned Sept. 24 asteroid sample landing will go as planned.

OSIRIS-REx captured what was there when the spacecraft made a touch-and-go landing on asteroid Bennu on October 20, 2020, then fired a bottle of compressed gas into the loose gravel-like material ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert.

Recovery teams are gearing up for the Sept. 24 landing of OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample in the Utah desert.

NASA has called the OSIRIS-Rex landing a historic success, the first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert.

The OSIRIS-REx mission will drop off its cargo, about a cup’s worth of rocks and soil from an asteroid, in the Utah desert on September 24. Here’s how NASA prepared.

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

How to watch the landing and other upcoming NASA events Glaze invites Utahns to participate in the following events celebrating the OSIRIS-REx mission over the next few days: Friday 11 a.m. to 12: ...