It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

The sample was collected from Bennu in ... briefly land on an asteroid and collect material. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft then dropped off a capsule when it swung by Earth in September 2023, sending ...

As part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission ... it also collected a precious sample of dust and small rocks from Bennu’s rubbly surface. In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine asteroid ...

SALT LAKE CITY — After examining just 0.06% of a 120-gram material sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu — which returned to Earth in Utah's west desert in September 2023 — a group of ...

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert on Sept. 24, 2023, at the U.S. Department of Defence's Utah Test and Training Range.

or OSIRIS-REx for short, traveled to the asteroid – about 200 million miles away from Earth. NASA said the spacecraft successfully collected a sample of rocks and dust from the asteroid’s surface in ...

FILE PHOTO: The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the ...