In an October update, NASA officials explained that the top of the canister, which has been previously estimated to hold ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed under parachute in the Utah desert on Sept. 24, 2023, and safely delivered a ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission narrowly avoided a parachute failure, with an investigation revealing the cause and stressing the need ...

For those watching NASA's live video coverage of the OSIRIS-REx mission's return to Earth, there were hints that something ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu was a smashing success. The spacecraft delivered its ...

A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.

The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid. Scientists anticipate getting about a half ...

NASA now needs to look at the system responsible for releasing the parachutes. This is currently locked away with the Bennu ...

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for ...

Earlier this week, a capsule screamed through the Earth's atmosphere at around 27,000 mph, delivering an incredibly rare package: roughly half a pound of material collected from an asteroid tens ...

A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on Earth was seeded ...

Capturing a piece of an asteroid and bringing it to Earth is even more difficult than it is time-consuming. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launched on September 8, 2016, and began orbiting the ...