Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

The doorbell camera caught it all. A crew wheels the OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return capsule into a cleanroom on Sept. 24, 2023. Credit: NASA / Keegan Barber NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex ...

The sample was collected from Bennu in ... briefly land on an asteroid and collect material. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft then dropped off a capsule when it swung by Earth in September 2023, sending ...

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned ... “Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home ...

“Asteroids provide a time capsule ... will return sample to Dugway NASA spacecraft to drop largest asteroid sample yet into Utah desert to close out 7-year mission NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission ...

D.C. These revelations could not have been made without the material brought back by OSIRIS-REx, said Danny Glavin, a senior sample scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt ...

FILE - OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule on ground. (NASA) What they're saying: "That's the kind of environment that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life," said ...

As part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission ... it also collected a precious sample of dust and small rocks from Bennu's rubbly surface. In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine asteroid ...

None of this analysis would have been possible without a sample-return mission — or if the samples been compromised. OSIRIS-REx had the challenging ... affect that time capsule of space rock.