REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

These deformations, associated with three distinct shapes—spherical, ... In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...

As members of the NASA OSIRIS-Rex Team, we analyze organic solids from the return mission from asteroid Bennu to understand their thermal history. We see evidence that this material evolves through ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins necessary for life on our planet. And during a NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx, scientists found 14 of them on an asteroid millions of kilometers away, ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex mission has uncovered invaluable samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing ancient salty minerals and amino acids. This discovery suggests that asteroids could have contributed to the ...

Cape Canaveral: NASA's groundbreaking asteroid sample mission has delivered some surprising revelations, hinting that the building blocks for life could have been mixed with salty water from ...