OSIRIS-REx
How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
In about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less ...
How NASA Surpassed Expectations With Asteroid Bennu
A view of eight sample trays containing the final material from asteroid Bennu. The dust and rocks were poured into ...
Take a look at the full asteroid Bennu sample in all its glory
Who doesn’t love showing off their collection of cool rocks? NASA was last week after struggling with it for a ...
How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought Bennu sample back to Earth.
NASA’s astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston has revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu ...
NASA’s Daring Mission To Intercept the “God of Chaos” Asteroid As It Closes In on Earth
By Lonnie Shekhtman and Rob Garner, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center December 27, 2023 OSIRIS-REx, now OSIRIS-APEX, is on a ...
Bennu samples provide surprising analysis, researchers reveal
The first analysis of the Bennu asteroid samples that NASA brought to Earth earlier this year has revealed some interesting ...
NASA Discovers Cause of Chute Glitch in Asteroid Sample Landing
Inconsistent labels in the OSIRIS-REx landing plans are what caused the out-of-order parachute deployment during the return capsule’s descent to ...
NASA Is Struggling to Open Its Asteroid Sample Container
About a month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth while enclosed within a tight capsule. The sample ...
NASA will reveal what OSIRIS-REx brought back from asteroid Bennu on Wednesday
NASA will give the public a look at the asteroid sample brought back to Earth by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft next ...
Video Shows NASA Probe Dispatching Asteroid Capsule to Earth
A view from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it dropped off its sample canister on September 24.Gif: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed ...
