NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

the NASA-owned OSIRIS-REx probe delivered to Earth a capsule containing valuable material samples from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists were curious to see what they would find inside. They expected ...

but this kind of vessel designed by NASA engineers for the OSIRIS-REx space mission did carry inside material that is not from our planet: pristine rocks and dust collected from the surface of the ...