In an October update, NASA officials explained that the top of the canister, which has been previously estimated to hold ...

NASA thinks it knows why the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe's return capsule failed to deploy its drogue parachute as planned ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission narrowly avoided a parachute failure, with an investigation revealing the cause and stressing the need ...

Lauretta called a crash like the one experienced by NASA's Genesis mission as the "worst-case scenario" for OSIRIS-REx. In ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu was a smashing success. The spacecraft delivered its ...

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for ...

The sample of the space rock Bennu that OSIRIS-REx collected could unlock an ancient existential mystery Chris Klimek Host, "There's More to That" The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule (foreground ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission is NASAs first mission to collect samples from an asteroid in this case 101955 Bennu and return to ...

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Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...

3:13 Asteroid Bennu sample contains water, carbon among other ‘building blocks of life,’ NASA says About 5-1/2 years from now, astronomers predict, an asteroid about as wide as the Empire ...

‘We're really lucky,’ says Dr Ashley King, a meteorite researcher at the Natural History Museum, who will be part of the team ...