Watch NASA’s capsule with asteroid samples hurtling to Earth
NASA has succeeded in bringing back to Earth a capsule containing samples gathered from an asteroid — a first for the space agency. The sample return capsule (SRC) from the…
OSIRIS-REx mission returns asteroid sample to Earth in NASA first
NASA has succeeded in returning its first sample of an asteroid to Earth, as the OSIRIS-REx mission released its capsule containing a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu early this…
Watch Live as NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Samples to Earth
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way to Earth to drop off rocky samples from asteroid Bennu on Sunday, marking NASA’s first attempt to retrieve a piece of a pure…
Telescope Spots a Sample-Laden OSIRIS-REx Returning From Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission launched to space in September 2016 with a simple, albeit ambitious, objective: travel to a distant asteroid and bring back a sample of it. The…
How to watch final moments of NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission
OSIRIS-REx: 1st US Asteroid Sample Lands Soon (Official NASA Trailer) In just a few days from now, NASA will oversee the final moments of its groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx mission, which marks…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Adjusts Course Ahead of Historic Asteroid Sample Return
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface was created by combining two images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on January 19, 2019.Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin A…
Watch NASA’s cinematic trailer for its asteroid mission’s homecoming
It’s seven years since NASA launched the OSIRIS-REx mission from Cape Canaveral in Florida, and in just a few weeks’ time all the hard work will culminate in a special…
Astrophysicist (and Queen Guitarist) Brian May to Co-Author Asteroid Atlas
The prominent astrophysicist and musician Brian May is co-authoring a three-dimensional atlas of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, an 85-million-ton hunk of rock orbiting the Sun. Buy Now or Wait? How…
NASA Transports Mock Asteroid Sample as It Prepares for OSIRIS-REx Return
After landing on an asteroid nearly three years ago to scoop up a sample from its rocky surface, the OSIRIS-REx mission is finally in the homestretch. NASA is preparing for…
NASA Wants an International Fleet of Spacecraft to Monitor Asteroid Flyby
Asteroid Apophis is scheduled for a brief rendezvous with Earth and NASA is hoping to get a good view of the close encounter in order to prepare for potentially hazardous…