The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the grayish, lumpy object and get it really close to the surface so the probe could pluck up some space rock samples with a robotic arm.

The sample capsule from OSIRIS-REx — which NASA calls the daredevil spacecraft — landed in the Utah desert Sunday morning. It was carrying rock and dust samples collected by the spacecraft ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

Upon making contact with the space rock, OSIRIS-REx fired a burst of nitrogen from its Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism to stick the landing and prevent itself from sinking through the ...

"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," the statement reads WASHINGTON, January 30. /TASS/. Samples of rock ...

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling ... briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample back to Earth for ...

But the space rock held even more secrets ... Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target.

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...

especially after researchers analysed surface samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. While much of the excitement has revolved around what the space rock can reveal about the origins of ...

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