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(CNN) — After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an

A 250-gram dust sample from the Bennu asteroid, collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, landed on Earth on Sunday.

After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security — Regolith Explorer)

The largest haul of extraterrestrial samples since Apollo 17 landed in Utah on Sept. 24 after being collected by the Osiris-REx spacecraft.

The capsule carried around 250g of rocks and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid sample stowed inside a NASA spacecraft is about to reach Earth after traveling for nearly 2½ years

A mission to bring samples from a distant asteroid back to Earth made history on Sunday with the success of NASA's OSIRIS-Rex.

On Sept. 24, 2023, OSIRIS-REx safely dropped off its collected pieces of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Soon, scientific study will begin.

Nasas Bennu asteroid sample collection mission has sent a chunk of an enormous space asteroid that may one day collide with Earth, allowing researchers to learn more about the formation of the...

As his spacecraft was hurtling toward Earth carrying asteroid samples, Dante Lauretta was trying to avoid having a breakdown in front of an international audience.