It's been seven years since the launch of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect and return samples of asteroid Bennu, and the long wait for the spacecraft's homecoming is nearly over. OSIRIS-REx, short ...

Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an asteroid ...

In a historic special delivery spanning seven years and 4 billion miles, an estimated half-pound of rocks from a distant asteroid successfully parachuted into a Utah desert site Sunday morning and ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory waited seven years for the return of its NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx. The spacecraft launched in 2016 with the goal of reaching ...

A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu — leftovers from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago — is expected to ...

70% of the sample will be preserved 'for study by scientists not yet born, using technologies not yet invented.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A handful of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu will be on its way to NASA’s Johnson Space Center today after landing in a remote stretch of Utah desert early Sunday morning, and the OSIRIS-REx ...

Seven years after it left for the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is returning with a celestial souvenir. On the morning of Sunday, September 24, as it passes by Earth the ...

NASA will give the public a look at the asteroid sample brought back to Earth by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft next week. A livestream of the reveal is set for 11 AM ET on Wednesday, October 11. The ...

Each second of the capsule's descent has been calculated in anticipation for NASA's first asteroid sample return mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...