The first asteroid sample collected in space by NASA arrived on Earth Sunday, Sept. 24, and there are multiple events leading up to its landing. NASA’s live coverage of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, ...

Documenting NASA's incredible twenty-year mission to land a spacecraft on an asteroid. An all-new, one-hour documentary revealing the incredible challenges, surprises and human triumphs of OSIRIS-REx, ...

Ingredients essential to kick-start life have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission was led by researchers at the University of Arizona and Arizona ...

Early analysis of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed dust rich in carbon, nitrogen, and organic compounds, all of which are essential components for life as ...

Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft is now undergoing environmental testing at the company’s Space Systems facilities near Denver. OSIRIS-REx ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grey rocks and dust inside a silver metal cannister. It's finally open. After months of anticipation, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission ...

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

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, ...

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This artist's illustration shows NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooming past Earth on Sept. 22, 2017 — a maneuver designed to boost the probe’s speed and refine its course toward the asteroid Bennu.

Sometimes, it's the big missions that are the most impressive -- your moon landings and your ISS construction projects. But these days, the big space projects that define the push toward a future in ...