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OSIRIS-REx sample return from asteroid Bennu. Landing in Dugway, Utah on September 24, 2023.
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) is the...
After two and a half years of space operations near asteroid Bennu.... NASA’s first asteroid return mission...
S69-40110 (25 July 1969) --- The first Apollo 11 sample return container, containing lunar surface material, is...
The OSIRIS-REx team has already pushed the boundaries of scientific exploration - going from ground-based radar...
Trailer for the OSIRIS-REx Touch-And-Go (TAG) Event at asteroid Bennu, on October 20, 2020.
The OSIRIS-REx team has already pushed the boundaries of scientific exploration -- going from ground-based radar...
On September 8, 2016 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, OSIRIS-REx began its journey – the most ambitious sample collection...
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what...
NASA's Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars since February of 2021, joining NASA's Curiosity rover,...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another...
The benefits of space station research and development, refining the architecture for the Mars Sample Return...
The capsule contains cometary and interstellar samples gathered by NASA Stardust spacecraft.
The capsule contains cometary and interstellar samples gathered by NASA Stardust spacecraft. Here, the capsule is...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this portrait of its recently completed sample depot using its Mastcam-Z...
Luna 16 was the first robotic mission to land on the Moon on basaltic plains of Mare Fecunditatis and return a...
Closeup view of a cometary impact upper right into aerogel was inspected by scientists at a laboratory at the...
This image of Martian regolith – broken rock and dust – was captured Dec. 2, 2022, by the Sampling and Caching...
Bennu's Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and the formation of...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission presented the science results gained during the spacecraft’s approach toward the asteroid...
A look back at OSIRIS-REx’s time at Asteroid Bennu starting with the Touch-and-Go (TAG) sample acquisition event...
Bennu's Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and the formation of...
In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to...
On Nov. 11, 2019, while the REXIS instrument was performing detailed science observations of Bennu, it captured...