Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar system and the building blocks of life.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission cost over $770 million for spacecraft development and assembly of its launch vehicle and returned just 122 grams of an asteroid sample in September 2023 — which was ...

The OSIRIS-REx sample containment pod is shown here, shortly after touching down in October 2023. (NASA) "The only way this could be discovered is because of controlled sample return by a ...

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Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back 121.6 ...

In total, OSIRIS-REx collected around120 grams of material, which is about the weight of a bar of soap and double the mission-required amount. The invaluable samples were divvied up and loaned to ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission undertook a seven-year journey, travelling hundreds of millions of kilometres to touch and collect material from Bennu. Since returning the sample home on the 24 September ...

In 2020, NASA ’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft collected samples from Bennu, becoming the first U.S. space mission to ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation.

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“Liftoff of OSIRIS- REx,” the public audio feed announced. “Its seven- year mission: to boldly go to the asteroid Bennu and back.” The whole thing was flawless. Beautiful. The smoke produced by ...