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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- NASA has completed the final major test to prepare for the arrival of the first U.S. asteroid sample - slated to land on Earth

Scientists are gearing up for a high-stakes finale to OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to snare a sample from an asteroid

The OSIRIS-REx mission will return samples from the asteroid Bennu that could rewrite our solar system’s history

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took off from the asteroid Bennu on May 10, 2021. Here is how the space agency plans to have the spacecraft "drop a parcel" containing asteroid samples to Earth.

NASA is preparing for the finale of the OSIRIS-REx mission, which will be the first US mission to return a sample from an asteroid to Earth.

Two papers take a detailed look at the first sample of Asteroid Ryugu, delivered by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft in 2020.

Scientists believe a trace amount of water discovered in an asteroid sample collected by a Japanese space probe could provide clues to the origins of life on Earth.

Japan's Hayabusa2 mission returned the sample to Earth in December 2020. Analysis of the sample shed new light on the ancient universe.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will be maneuvered gradually to deliver capsule holding asteroid samples. NASA plans on dropping off a sample of an asteroid to Earth.

Asteroids that traveled from the fringes of the solar system more than 4.5 billion kilometers away may have brought water and organic matter to the primordial Earth, a team of Japanese researchers said.