A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023 ... clarify that they haven’t found life, but that this collection of amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known ...

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid. Now, the historic mission is coming to an end seven years later. The sample capsule from OSIRIS-REx ...

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.

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid ... the scientists plan to reexamine meteorites in their collection for similar salts and compounds. "We now know we have ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...

Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target. It's on a path to rendezvous with the Apophis ...

(Courtesy: James Di Loreto, Smithsonian) A sample of asteroid dirt brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission contains amino acids and the nucleobases of RNA and DNA, plus brines that could ...