Countdown to History: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Preps for Epic Asteroid Delivery
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is set to return the first U.S. asteroid sample to Earth in September after a successful mockup drop test in Utah’s West…
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Preparing for Asteroid Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Astromaterials Lab Opens Doors to Media
Ahead of the first asteroid sample collected by the U.S. arriving on Earth in September, media are invited on Monday, July 24, to meet mission…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Will Deliver 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Asteroid Samples to Specially Designed Facility
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is set to return samples from asteroid Bennu to Earth. These 4.5 billion-year-old samples will help scientists understand planet formation and life’s genesis,…
A Race Against Time: NASA Readies for Historic Asteroid Sample Delivery
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is cruising back to Earth with a sample it collected from the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu. When its sample capsule parachutes…
First NASA Asteroid Sample Return Mission on Track To Deliver Sample to Earth
NASA’s first asteroid sample return spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, fired its thrusters for 30 seconds on September 21 and nudged its trajectory toward Earth. The resulting course…
NASA Finds Some Asteroids Aged Early by Sun – “We Were Surprised”
Recently, scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission discovered that surface regeneration occurs on asteroids far more quickly than on Earth. By analyzing high-resolution images of rock…
Surprise – Again! NASA Spacecraft Reveals Asteroid Bennu Is Not What It Seemed
Scientists have learned something astonishing after analyzing data gathered when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020. The spacecraft would…
NASA OSIRIS-REx Mission Sample Collection Reveals Asteroid Bennu’s Sub-Surface
Asteroid Bennu’s surface consists of low-cohesion rubble according to data gathered during the sampling of the asteroid by the OSIRIS-REx mission. This is the finding…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Observes Asteroid Bennu’s Boulder “Body Armor”
Asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface gives it protection against small meteoroid impacts, according to observations of craters by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith…
Bennu and Ryugu Asteroids: Diamonds in the Sky
Bennu and Ryugu are two rubble-pile asteroids that were recently photographed by unmanned spacecrafts. Both asteroids have a distinctive diamond shape, the formation of which…
Asteroid Bennu’s Surface Surprised Scientists – Here’s the Reason for the Mysterious Lack of Fine Regolith
Using data from NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, a University of Arizona-led team of scientists concluded that asteroids with highly porous rocks, such as Bennu, should lack…
NASA Upped the Chance of Asteroid Bennu Slamming Into Earth – Putting the Odds in Perspective
Like Hitting a Bullseye With Your Eyes Closed Two statisticians put into perspective the chances of asteroid Bennu striking Earth in the next 300 years….
Watch NASA’s “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” – Selected for Prestigious Computer Graphics Film Festival
It’s hard to imagine what the surface of asteroid Bennu might look like – it’s shortest distance from Earth still 250,000 miles away – but…
NASA Celebrates OSIRIS-REx’s Perfect Departure Maneuver From Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is 328,000 miles, or 528,000 kilometers, away from the asteroid Bennu, having fired its engines on May 10 to initiate a return…
OSIRIS-REx Heading Home With Abundant Sample of Asteroid Bennu
After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with…
Farewell Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Fires Its Engines to Head to Earth With Asteroid Sample
After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with…
Like Boot Prints on the Moon, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Left Its Mark on Asteroid Bennu
Like boot prints on the Moon, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft left its mark on asteroid Bennu. Now, new images — taken during the spacecraft’s final fly-over…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Completes Final Tour of Asteroid Bennu Before Its 180,000,000 Mile Trip Back to Earth
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx completed its last flyover of Bennu around 6 a.m. EDT (4 a.m. MDT) April 7 and is now slowly drifting away from the…
