NASA's $1 billion OSIRIS-REx sample return mission is less than 48 hours away from its dramatic landing in the Utah desert. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (which stands for "Origins, Spectral ...

After course corrections to line up on the Utah landing site, the OSIRIS-REx mothership released the sample return capsule at 6:42 a.m. EDT. With the capsule safely on its way, the OSIRIS-REx ...

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 landing Sunday at 8:55 am local time in Utah (10:55 am EDT or 14:55 UTC) will wrap up a round-trip journey of 4.4 billion miles (7.1 billion kilometers) for NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx mission.

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

Cleanroom procedures are practiced at Lockheed Martin in readiness for the planned Sept. 24, 2023 landing of OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample capsule. (Image credit: Leonard David) ...

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

This weekend will see the landing of NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, and telescopes on the ground have been able to track it.

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 ...

A science team collected samples from the landing site, including air, dust and dirt particles. “One of the key scientific objectives of OSIRIS-REx is to return a pristine sample and pristine ...