NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it’ll be collecting in just a few weeks. In a special collection of six papers published today in the journals ...

Today, The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will make its first attempt to gather dust and rocks from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. NASA is currently streaming the operation live.

COLORADO SPRINGS—NASA has provided new details about the success of the recent Osiris-Rex sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu since gaining access to all the recovered material for the first ...

When asteroid samples dropped to the Utah desert in 2023, it was go time for NASA's dedicated curation team. Reading time 5 minutes The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science ...

Sometimes, it's the big missions that are the most impressive -- your moon landings and your ISS construction projects. But these days, the big space projects that define the push toward a future in ...

Documenting NASA's incredible twenty-year mission to land a spacecraft on an asteroid. An all-new, one-hour documentary revealing the incredible challenges, surprises and human triumphs of OSIRIS-REx, ...

Life on Earth, as we know it, needs a few things to get off the ground. It needs an abundance of liquid water, a Goldilocks temperature that won't make said water freeze or boil, and a collection of a ...