Discovery in NASA’s OSIRIS REx Mission Samples Point to Asteroid Bennu’s Surprising Origins Micah Hanks·June 27, 2024Asteroid samples retrieved by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission have revealed the presence of components hinting at the origins of life on Earth.
NASA Unveils Stunning Imagery and Analysis of the First Near-Earth Asteroid Samples Collected by OSIRIS-REx Micah Hanks·October 11, 2023The initial results of studies involving newly returned samples collected from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid were unveiled by NASA on Wednesday.
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.
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.
