In an October update, NASA officials explained that the top of the canister, which has been previously estimated to hold ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission narrowly avoided a parachute failure, with an investigation revealing the cause and stressing the need ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu was a smashing success. The spacecraft delivered its ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed under parachute in the Utah desert on Sept. 24, 2023, and safely delivered a ...
Lauretta called a crash like the one experienced by NASA's Genesis mission as the "worst-case scenario" for OSIRIS-REx. In ...
A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.
The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid. Scientists anticipate getting about a half ...
NASA has revealed how a wiring mix-up resulted in a parachute problem on its otherwise successful OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission.… The release triggers for the parachutes could have been ...
Earth just got a special delivery: Pieces of an ancient asteroid that were snagged straight from the source and dropped off in the western Utah desert. After traveling through space for nearly ...
A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for ...
Earlier this week, a capsule screamed through the Earth's atmosphere at around 27,000 mph, delivering an incredibly rare package: roughly half a pound of material collected from an asteroid tens ...
A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on Earth was seeded ...
