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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will see a sample of an asteroid return to Earth on Sept. 24. Here's how the mission's head scientist feels about the chances of success.

A little over seven years ago, on Sept. 8, 2016, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral at Kennedy Space Center,

The new nondenominated (66¢) commemorative for the OSIRIS-REx mission was a surprise addition to the 2023 U.S. program.

NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission will see a sample of an asteroid return to Earth on Sept. 24. Heres how the missions head scientist feels about the chances of success.

The package, rather than coming from FedEx or UPS, is coming from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

On Sept. 24, NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft will try to complete its seven-year journey by dropping an asteroid sample of Bennu to Earth.

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The OSIRIS-REx mission will drop off its cargo, about a cup’s worth of rocks and soil from an asteroid, in the Utah desert on September 24. Here’s how NASA prepared.

An asteroid sample stowed inside a NASA spacecraft is about to reach Earth after traveling for nearly 2½ years across space

Five asteroids, one the size of a home and two the size of an airplane, will travel past Earth between September 6 and September 12.