This NASA diagram shows how the OSIRIS-REx capsule will return to Earth on Sept. 24 over the course of 4 hours. (Image credit: NASA) NASA is just one week away from the epic landing of its OSIRIS ...

Since bidding Bennu farewell in May 2021, OSIRIS-REx has been on a return trip to Earth, circling the sun twice so it can fly by our planet at the right time to drop off the asteroid sample.

Update: Touchdown of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule in the desert of Utah at 10:52 a.m. EDT Sunday. Screaming into Earth's atmosphere Sunday at 7 miles per second, a precious ½ ...

REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NASA will power up OSIRIS-REx in the early morning on Sept. 24 and ensure the probe's trajectory and orientation are aligned to jettison the mission's sample return capsule.

Released from the OSIRIS-REx mothership four hours earlier, the 110-pound 31-inch-wide sample return capsule, loaded with a half-pound of rocks and soil collected in 2020 from an asteroid known as ...

Asteroid dirt, rocks and debris go flying after the sample collection arm of NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe fires pressurized gas into the regolith of the asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020.

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.

Osiris-Rex: Nasa confirms return of asteroid Bennu samples. 25 September 2023. Share Save. Jonathan Amos, science correspondent. in Dugway, Utah. Share Save.

In this photo provided by NASA, recovery teams participate in field rehearsals to prepare for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission at the Department of Defense ...

After years of research, observation and tribulations, the UA team responsible for the unique OSIRIS-REx mission is excited for the return of the asteroid Bennu sample to Earth.