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 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have been analyzing it ever since. International scientific teams have ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned triumphantly to Earth ... Nicky Fox, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, said in a press release that, “Asteroids ...

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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was launched September 8, 2016. In two years, the probe, which has traveled 6.2 billion kilometers, eventually reached the asteroidandcarried out soil sampling, starting ...

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 ...