Quincy native Beth Buck, a former program manager at Lockheed Martin’s Deep Space Exploration Mission Operations, will present an overview of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. This ambitious project to ...

Margaret Hamilton, lead Apollo flight software design, standing next to listings of the Apollo Guidance Computer source code. Courtesy NASA/Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

On Friday the 13th (yes, really) of April 2029, Earth will avoid an apocalyptic event by an astronomical hair’s breadth as the asteroid Apophis, streaks by. It will come closer to Earth than the ...

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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab/SVS Many of the salts present degrade quickly when exposed to the atmosphere, however, the samples collected on the OSIRIS-REx mission were sealed and ...

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample ...

This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

Preliminary analyses of the asteroid showed it contained water, carbon, nitrogen, and other organic ... Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister ... of amino acids, nitrogen in the form of ...

OSIRIS-REx was designed to keep the samples pure and untouched by Earth, with procedures to inject the sample return capsule with nitrogen as soon as possible after its landing. Furthermore ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered a sample from asteroid Bennu, revealing amino acids, nucleobases, ammonia, and minerals formed in saltwater. These organic compounds, vital to life ...