NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission is officially prepared for its long-awaited touchdown on asteroid…
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OSIRIS-REx is a NASA asteroid study and sample-return mission that was launched in September 2016. The mission’s main objective is to travel to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, survey the asteroid up close, collect surface material, and return the samples to Earth for analysis. Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid, and studying its composition may provide insights into the early solar system and the origins of life on Earth. The spacecraft successfully collected samples from Bennu in October 2020 and returned to Earth with the samples in September 2023.
After the successful completion of its “Checkpoint” rehearsal, NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft is one step…
In August, a robotic spacecraft will make NASA’s first-ever attempt to descend to the surface…
This global map of asteroid Bennu’s surface is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s…
This summer, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will undertake NASA’s first-ever attempt to touch the surface of…
Asteroid Bennu’s most prominent boulder, a rock chunk jutting out 71 ft (21.7 m) from…
NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft just got its best look yet at asteroid Bennu. Yesterday, the…
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made…
On February 11, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of the…
Preliminary results indicate that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site…
After a year scoping out asteroid Bennu’s boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid…
On Friday, October 11, 2019, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is just days away from selecting the site where the spacecraft will…
Shortly after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission’s…
This trio of images acquired by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows a wide shot and two…
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the…
Recently analyzed data from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has…
After traveling through space for more than two years and over two billion kilometers, NASA’s…