NASA’s OSIRIS-REx risked everything to touch a cosmic relic, Bennu offered no guarantees only danger and possibility, years of planning led to a heart-stopping touchdown that could have failed ...

The sample was secured after a tense few days following OSIRIS-REx’s October 20 touchdown on Bennu, which made the spacecraft only the third—and NASA’s first—to collect a sample from an ...

Members of the OSIRIS-REx science team will be honored during Saturday’s football game at Arizona Stadium, a little over a month after they scored a spectacular touchdown of their own.

After further review, Tuesday’s touchdown by the OSIRIS-REx team looks like an even bigger score than originally thought. New images beamed back from space early Wednesday morning show the ...

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Released from the OSIRIS-REx mothership four hours earlier, the 110-pound 31-inch-wide sample return capsule, loaded with a half-pound of rocks and soil collected in 2020 from an asteroid known as ...

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 ...

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample ...

In Tucson, near 6th and Drachman, UA’s Michael Drake building honors the professor who was the principal investigator of the Osiris Rex mission but died while planning was still in its early stages.

The OSIRIS-REx capsule reached speeds of up to 27,000 mph (43,450 km/h) and its heatshield experienced temperatures as high as 5,300 degrees Fahrenheit (2,900 Celsius) as it descended through ...

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.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to deliver a return capsule with asteroid dust on Sunday. The capsule should land in the Utah desert if all goes according to plan. Scientists hope to ...