Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft poised to land on the asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 24, NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Extensive practice sessions have been orchestrated to properly handle the container and its asteroid collectibles once the spacecraft is on terra firma. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx seven-year mission to collect rocks and dust from a near-Earth asteroid is complete. The capsule containing the final samples returned to Earth on the morning of September 24th, ...

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The samples could change what we know about the origins of the solar system. A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size ...

The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away. NASA revealed on Wednesday that "the building blocks of life on Earth" may have been found in an asteroid sample collected from ...

A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...

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 ...