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 ...

OSIRIS-REx's van-sized craft visited Bennu, scraped and collected material from the asteroid’s surface, and sealed it into a 3-foot-wide container, equipped with a heat shield, called the Sample ...

The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule and its parachute are seen by recovery teams from a helicopter after its successful landing in Utah on Sept. 24, 2023. (Image credit: NASA) ...

On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth and dropped a sample of asteroid Bennu to Utah's West Desert. The mission went "absolutely perfectly," and NASA scientists hope the sample will ...

OSIRIS-REx follows up on earlier sample return missions — including Stardust, which brought back samples of cometary and interstellar dust in 2006 under the leadership of University of ...

Update: Touchdown of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule in the desert of Utah at 10:52 a.m. EDT Sunday. Screaming into Earth's atmosphere Sunday at 7 miles per second, a precious ½ ...

OSIRIS-REx’s next target, Apophis, also makes regular close approaches to Earth — but NASA has confirmed that this asteroid won’t be striking the planet on any of its next three approaches ...

The OSIRIS-REx return capsule is scheduled to land on Sept. 24, in a drop zone roughly 80 miles (130 kilometers) west of Salt Lake City within the U.S. military's Utah Test and Training Range. Get ...

The NASA mission – designed, built and flown by Lockheed Martin – aims to uncover new learnings about the building blocks of life in our solar system UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Utah, Sept ...

This helped OSIRIS-REx to scoop up 121.6 g (4.29 oz), far more than the amount that would have made the mission a success. By ...