Meanwhile, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will continue to survey the asteroid Apophis when it makes a fly-by of Earth in 2029. Original article source: NASA prepares for all weather as OSIRIS-REx asteroid ...

Pieces of a potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu will come barreling down to Earth on Sunday, landing in Utah, following a ...

On September 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the Utah desert, delivering an asteroid sample that NASA has spent nearly 20 years trying to retrieve. Two weeks after touchdown ...

The sample canister which landed in the Utah desert on 24 September has been opened but its inner chamber used by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft to store the asteroid fragments for the journey home has ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe just nailed its second trial run for a sample collection attempt in October. The goal is to obtain samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu and then return ...

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid ... sample capsule from OSIRIS-REx — which NASA calls the daredevil spacecraft — landed in the Utah ...

After nearly three years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to finally deliver the largest asteroid sample ever to the Utah desert at approximately 10:55 a.m. ET. That's right, an asteroid sample is ...