Los Angeles Times

NASA’s attempt to bring home part of Mars is unprecedented. The mission’s problems are not

Massive cost overruns. Key deadlines slipping out of reach. Problems of unprecedented complexity, and a generation’s worth of scientific progress contingent upon solving them. That’s the current state ...
CNN

Pleasant surprise greets scientists opening asteroid sample dropped from space

Scientists have taken their first glimpse of a sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu — and stumbled upon a good bit more than they expected. When they opened the canister containing the ...
TweakTown

NASA drops update on new asteroid sample and the problem with its container

NASA has issued an update on its asteroid sample collection mission, officially dubbed OSIRIS-REx, revealing a problem with the container that transported the sample back to Earth. The space agency ...
Live Science

NASA is locked out of its OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample because of 2 faulty fasteners

NASA is struggling to open a capsule containing precious asteroid samples from the OSIRIS-REx mission. Luckily, there is plenty of material to study on the outside of the container. When you purchase ...
Popular Mechanics

It Took 20 Years to Steal This Asteroid Dust. NASA Did It—and Found Water and Carbon Inside.

On September 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the Utah desert, delivering an asteroid sample that NASA has spent nearly 20 years trying to retrieve. Two weeks after touchdown, NASA has ...