In-Depth: OSIRIS-REx Mission Achieves Historic Milestone with NASA’s Successful Delivery of Asteroid Samples to Earth Micah Hanks·September 25, 2023A mission to bring samples from a distant asteroid back to Earth made history on Sunday with the success of NASA's OSIRIS-Rex.
Touching a Piece of the Sky: The OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Mission Avi Loeb·September 25, 2023The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, launched in 2016 towards the near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, just completed its long journey home.
Space Dust Gives Asteroids a Rough Appearance, Latest Studies of Asteroid Bennu Show Kenna Hughes-Castleberry·July 18, 2022Asteroids provide an extremely important resource for astronomers, which includes the way they help to unravel clues about...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is Headed Back to Earth With Samples From an Asteroid Micah Hanks·May 21, 2021After several years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way back home with a trove of samples it collected during its historic retrieval mission.