Bennu, a cosmic time capsule, held secrets millions of years old. OSIRIS-REx's touchdown brought humanity closer to the stars ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has reached the Bennu asteroid after a two-year journey! Find out why this mission is so important, how it will collect asteroid samples, and the science behind ...

The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. Nasa wants to learn more about the mountainous object, not least because it has an outside ...

"We really did kind of make a mess." That was Dante Lauretta's take after reviewing the first pictures to come down from Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe following its bid to grab a sample from asteroid ...

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In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

Asteroid AB 2025 is set to make an astonishingly close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of just 1.2 million miles.

A 100-foot asteroid named 2024 YZ9 is nearing Earth. NASA confirmed its flyby on 7 January, posing no danger. This celestial visitor highlights the need for space vigilance. Key Facts About the ...

This event has now passed. You can watch a recording of the event for free on our YouTube channel. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return home on 24 ...

Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx. I want to compare the meteorites we have here on Earth to these asteroids in order to say something about asteroid evolution. I am unravelling the history of an unusual group ...