Update: Touchdown of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule in the desert of Utah at 10:52 a.m. EDT Sunday. Screaming into Earth's atmosphere Sunday at 7 miles per second, a precious ½ ...

OSIRIS-REx's touchdown brought humanity closer to the stars, but the journey was anything but easy. Dive into the drama and success of NASA's boldest mission yet! More for You.

OSIRIS-Rex launched on Sept. 8, 2016, and arrived at asteroid Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018. It began orbiting the carbon-rich rock on Dec. 31, 2018. A dramatic, yet brief, touchdown on Oct. 20, 2020, saw ...

Asteroid Bennu nearly swallowed the OSIRIS-REx probe when it touched down on the rock to collect a sample, revealing that the space rock's nature was much different than scientists had thought.

The OSIRIS-REx mission was recently extended and after the spacecraft drops off its cargo at Earth next year, it will head to Apophis, another high-risk asteroid, which it will visit in 2029.

After today’s touchdown, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson heralded OSIRIS-REx as the beginning of a new chapter in the study of near-Earth objects. “This mission proves that NASA does big things ...

Bennu’s reaction to OSIRIS-REx’s touchdown also had scientists puzzled. After briefly interacting with the asteroid, the spacecraft left a 26-foot (8-meter) wide crater.

Osiris-Rex launched in 2016, ... “We scored the first touchdown today,” said Tim Priser, an engineer at Lockheed Martin, at a news conference following the capsule’s landing.

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returning home with asteroid sample. Scientists say that the sample could hold evidence to the origin of life on Earth. Share ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe performed its Touch-And-Go maneuver on the space rock Bennu days ago. The new video shows the probe slapping the surface of … ...

NASA calls it *** cosmic touch and go. When we made contact with the surface, there was *** one second delay and then we fired that high pressure nitrogen gas and the surface just exploded in ...

NASA calls it *** cosmic touch and go. When we made contact with the surface, there was *** one second delay and then we fired that high pressure nitrogen gas and the surface just exploded in ...