NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an asteroid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft poised to land on the asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 24, NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A University of Arizona team just scored a perfect touchdown—-from millions of miles in space The Osiris Rex space mission funded by NASA but led by University of Arizona ...

OSIRIS-REx curation team members at NASA’s Johnson Space Center begin the process of removing and flipping the TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Mechanism) from the avionics deck of the mission's science ...

The samples could change what we know about the origins of the solar system. A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Moreau is one of more than two dozen CU Boulder alumni to be part of the OSIRIS-REx mission. Find out more: Space probe scoops up CU Boulder graduates (Dec. 2018) Probe returning to Earth with ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx seven-year mission to collect rocks and dust from a near-Earth asteroid is complete. The capsule containing the final samples returned to Earth on the morning of September 24th, ...