When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swings by Earth on Sunday, it is expected to deliver a rare cosmic gift: a pristine sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. If all goes according to ...

"That was as much as 200 million miles away at one point. Yeah, now it's only like 20 miles from my house." WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was business as usual at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

Seven years after launching to space, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth Sunday to deliver the pristine sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins ...

Follow along here for all of the updates about the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return. Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

In other words, OSIRIS-REx was meant to deliver untouched asteroid chunks home to be analyzed in a lab. This brilliant plan worked. The samples landed in the Utah desert in 2023, and scientists ...

美国宇航局的奥西里斯-雷克斯（Osiris-Rex）宇宙飞船三年前收集了这些样本，然后在上个月飞越地球期间将它们密封在一个密闭舱中。 科学家们预计 ...

Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by OSIRIS‐REx. Meteoritics & Planetary Science , 2024; DOI: 10.1111/maps.14227 Cite This Page : ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped ...

China is set to launch its first asteroid sampling mission, Tianwen 2, on Thursday, according to the China National Space ...