Asteroid Sample Return News Today

NASA's OSIRIS-REx team received the prestigious Goddard Memorial Trophy for its historic mission of collecting and returning an asteroid sample, aiding scientific research on the solar system's origins. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team was selected as the winner of the National Space Club and Foundation’s

Having trouble getting ready for the upcoming holidays with all this heat? Here are five things to do in Tucson to help get into the holiday spirit.

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NASA's asteroid Bennu sample indicates high-carbon content and water, suggesting potential building blocks for life on Earth. This discovery, part of the OSIRIS-REx mission, will be studied for years, offering insights into the solar system and life's origins. Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-y

The public will get a first look at the asteroid sample that was collected from Bennu and brought back to Earth on the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft last month.

"Boy, did we really nail it."

After being dropped off on Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, pieces of asteroid Bennu will be revealed to the public for the first time on Wednesday.

MIT Professor Richard Binzel describes how asteroid dirt and dust delivered by OSIRIS-Rex, with help from MIT students and the REXIS instrument, may reveal clues to the solar system’s origins.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out.