It's finally open. After months of anticipation, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved a significant milestone by successfully accessing the treasure trove of asteroid material that the probe ...

But there's little question the dust grains visible immediately after scientists opened the lid to the canister are from asteroid Bennu, where the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured rocks during a ...

Following a nearly three-year journey through space, the canister containing samples from asteroid Bennu has finally been opened. The OSIRIS-REx mission team removed the initial lid of the sample ...

NASA lifted the lid of its OSIRIS-REx sample container, collected from millions of miles away on asteroid Bennu. The space agency photographed the contents inside.

OSIRIS-REx's asteroid-sample canister just creaked open for the first time in more than seven years. Scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston lifted the canister's outer lid on ...

NASA has revealed the materials harvested from the asteroid Bennu after finally being able to remove the stuck lid from the OSIRIS-REx return capsule.

The OSIRIS-REx TAGSAM head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample. Photo: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold The aluminum canister containing bits of an ancient ...

Scientists have discovered an abundance of material after opening the OSIRIS-REx canister containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu, which could offer key insights into the origins of ...

OSIRIS-REx that carried sample from asteroid Bennu, made a successful return to Earth on Sunday, seven years after it was launched on September 8, 2016. Scientists found black dust and debris on ...

Scientists haven't even yet opened the actual canister that contains the bulk of what the sample collection spacecraft, called OSIRIS-REx, plucked from the 4.5 billion-year-old space rock.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which recently successfully deposited a sample of asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert, is struggling to open the canister containing the space rocks. The team at NASA's ...