NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched ...

Early analysis of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed dust rich in carbon, nitrogen, and organic compounds, all of which are essential components for life as ...

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it’ll be collecting in just a few weeks. In a special collection of six papers published today in the journals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it ...

Life on Earth, as we know it, needs a few things to get off the ground. It needs an abundance of liquid water, a Goldilocks temperature that won't make said water freeze or boil, and a collection of a ...

NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston has revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler head. On Jan. 10 ...

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. While ...

The largest sample returned from an asteroid could contain insights into our solar system's past and the origin of life on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered 4.29 ounces (121.6 grams) of material from asteroid Bennu when it returned to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023; the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space and ...

Sometimes, it's the big missions that are the most impressive -- your moon landings and your ISS construction projects. But these days, the big space projects that define the push toward a future in ...

When asteroid samples dropped to the Utah desert in 2023, it was go time for NASA's dedicated curation team. Reading time 5 minutes The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science ...

A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, shown in microscope images. The top-left pane shows a dark Bennu particle, about a millimeter long, with an outer ...