The NASA mission – designed, built and flown by Lockheed Martin (LMT) – aims to uncover new learnings about the building blocks of life in our solar system UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Utah, Sept. 24 ...

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

The arm, called the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or TAGSAM, will extend from the spacecraft when it closes in on Bennu after circling it for months. When TAGSAM makes contact, a burst of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a sample back to Earth ...

This artist's illustration shows NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooming past Earth on Sept. 22, 2017 — a maneuver designed to boost the probe’s speed and refine its course toward the asteroid Bennu.

Upon a successful return to Earth next year, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will be the first American mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid. But NASA announced last week that the story won’t end ...

On Tuesday, Oct. 20, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Bennu for 4.7 seconds, a maneuver that was more than a decade in the making. Scientists at the University of Arizona ...

A new book tells the story of the mastermind who directed NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx mission Diane Tedeschi Initially, your entire group was responsible for selecting the landing site. Ultimately, you ...

Jessica Barnes examines a vial containing sample particles at the Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis, located at the University of Arizona. Asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA's ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission is currently orbiting the 500-m (1,640-ft.) wide Bennu at just 680 m altitude, breaking a record the spacecraft previously set when it maneuvered into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent two years observing the asteroid Bennu before it collected a ...