NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

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

The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away. NASA revealed on Wednesday that "the building blocks of life on Earth" may have been found in an asteroid sample collected from ...

NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft is now undergoing environmental testing at the company’s Space Systems facilities near Denver. OSIRIS-REx ...

The team had hoped for 60 grams, and without even accessing the bulk sample, they're already at 70.3. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

70% of the sample will be preserved 'for study by scientists not yet born, using technologies not yet invented.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

If Osiris, ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, and Tyrannosaurus rex, king of the dinosaurs, somehow had a baby, and that baby was an asteroid-bound spacecraft, it would be named OSIRIS-REx. Yes, ...

Your browser does not support the video element. NASA's Osiris-Rex mission successfully scooped up a sample of fine dust and grit from an asteroid called Bennu on ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft descended to an asteroid Tuesday and, dodging boulders the size of buildings, momentarily touched the surface to collect a handful of cosmic rubble for return ...