It's been seven years since the launch of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect and return samples of asteroid Bennu, and the long wait for the spacecraft's homecoming is nearly over. OSIRIS-REx, short ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

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As promised, Destiny's most competitive PvP event makes its return on September 30, two weeks after the launch of the game's fall expansion Rise of Iron. Most Destiny players have finished all the ...

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

The Colorado-built and flown space probe returns with what's hoped to be the largest extra-terrestrial sample brought from beyond the moon. Teams from NASA and Lockheed Martin Space are readying in ...

A replica of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule descends under parachute during a dress rehearsal Aug. 30 in Utah. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber WASHINGTON — NASA is making the final preparations to ...

A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted ...

A sample of the asteroid 101955 Bennu was returned to Earth on Sunday by NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission. It marks ...

Each second of the capsule's descent has been calculated in anticipation for NASA's first asteroid sample return mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...