OSIRIS-REx is an ongoing mission. It returned samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, and is now moving on to study asteroid Apophis in 2029. When you purchase through links on our ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an ...

"That would be just heartbreaking, right?" says Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, who compared that scenario to fumbling a ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

MORE: Asteroid that passes nearby could hit Earth in the future, NASA says Back in September 2016, the federal space agency launched the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on a daring mission to snare a batch ...

OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect an asteroid sample and bring it back to Earth. On Sunday morning, the asteroid material successfully reached Earth's surface, landing in the Utah ...

Now, a mission by NASA to collect a piece of ancient ... Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission used some pretty fascinating tech to autonomously acquire rocks and dust from an asteroid called Bennu. Asteroids can act as time capsules, and Bennu reflects what was ...

This critical — and long-awaited — step advances the main objective of the $1 billion UA-led mission to collect a sample of the asteroid, which contains materials left over fr ...

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China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...