NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The mission team still hasn’t cracked open the OSIRIS-REx science canister containing the bulk of what was brought back from Bennu.

A tall order in a small canister OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first mission to acquire a sample from an asteroid and deliver it to Earth, is the culmination of more than a decade of work by a team of hundreds.

An all-new, one-hour documentary revealing the incredible challenges, surprises and human triumphs of OSIRIS-REx, the nearly twenty-year space mission to return samples from an ancient asteroid ...

Checking in with the OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return team and scientists from SPACEWATCH.

In addition to the 2.48 ounces (70.3 grams) of sample already collected from the outside of the canister, NASA has finally managed to fully open OSIRIS-REx's sample container to find another 1.81 ...

It took a special, custom-made screwdriver (shown being operated by OSIRIS-REx curation engineer Neftali Hernandez) to finally open the canister of dust and rock brought back from the asteroid Bennu.

Engineers had to design bespoke tools to open the OSIRIS-REx capsule nearly four months after it arrived back on Earth.

NASA has revealed the materials harvested from the asteroid Bennu after finally being able to remove the stuck lid from the OSIRIS-REx return capsule.

After struggling for months, NASA has finally cracked open the canister storing a dirt sample scooped off the surface of an asteroid. Launched in September 2016, the spacecraft flew to its target, the ...

After 20 years of planning, building, launching, and waiting, NASA finally accessed the last of the Bennu asteroid sample from the OSIRIS-REx sample retrieval mission, which returned to Earth this ...