"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

I t took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S ...

In September 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 ...

OSIRIS-REx found that Bennu’s surface was far rougher ... samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Hayabusa2 probe. One key finding announced was related to the chirality, or ...

Seven years and 4 billion miles after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a precious sample of one near-Earth asteroid — and is now ...

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

Nasa scientists cheered as their spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, successfully touched down on Asteroid Bennu to collect rocks and dirt from the surface, to bring back to Earth. The meticulously planned ...

The probe will send back images of the sample ... “Everything went just exactly perfect,” Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator from the University of Arizona, Tucson, said on ...