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 ...

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 ...

NASA now needs to look at the system responsible for releasing the parachutes. This is currently locked away with the Bennu sample, the processing of which remains the mission's top priority. Once ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed under parachute in the Utah desert on Sept. 24, 2023, and safely delivered a ...

Explore a tiny asteroid sample's cosmic secrets and its potential impact on our understanding of the universe.

REx probe dropped home samples of asteroid Bennu and is now headed on a bonus mission with leftover fuel to yet another space ...

The team is also analyzing a sample from asteroid Ryugu brought by the Hayabusa2 explorer of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...

The sample was scooped up from the surface of 500m-wide asteroid Bennu in 2020 by Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, and then ...

Data from other studies on asteroids, combined with the new thermal models of Phaethon, led the researchers to believe that ...