China continued its interstellar exploration, with Tianwen-2 - the country's first asteroid probe and sampling mission - being successfully launched on Thursday early morning via a Long March-3B ...

OSIRIS-REx circled the asteroid for 22 months to search for a landing spot, touching down to collect a 2-ounce (60 grams) sample from Bennu's surface that could contain the extraterrestrial ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Devara Box Office Collection Day 10: Jr NTR And Janhvi Kapoor’s ...

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.

An all-new, one-hour documentary revealing the incredible challenges, surprises and human triumphs of OSIRIS-REx, the nearly twenty-year space mission to return samples from an ancient asteroid ...

“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 ...

It was successful, and this past fall, the spacecraft safely delivered its asteroid sample to scientists waiting on Earth. In a new memoir, The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of ...

In September, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission deposited a cache of asteroid samples at UTTR. Varda was the first company to secure a commercial FAA reentry license under streamlined commercial ...

During its mission, OSIRIS-REx also found evidence that there was once liquid water in one of the ancient asteroids that collided to form the pile of rocky debris that’s now Bennu.

In September 2016, NASA launched the uncrewed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on a mission to collect a sample from the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, which has a 1-in-2,700 chance of slamming into ...

US govt, tech sector team up to get academia making its own next-gen AI models OSIRIS-REx's stuck asteroid sample canister finally cracked open by NASA India inches space program forward with launch ...