NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

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 ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

OSIRIS-REx, however, does have its own reasons to ... "I'd also like to mention that, and thank the Kennedy Space Center launch services, for helping us get samples of the hydrazine propellants ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

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and OSIRIS-REx (2016), which sampled material from an asteroid and brought it to Earth. One upcoming New Frontiers mission is NASA’s Dragonfly, a quadcopter drone slated to launch to Saturn’s ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous ... Follow the team as they count down to the mission launch date, and profiles selected team ...