NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission will return pieces of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Follow the historic landing live here.

OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touches down in western Utah (animation). (Image credit: NASA) Over the next five minutes, the pod's main chute will slow its descent to approximately 11 miles-per ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert. CNN values your feedback 1.

Update: Touchdown of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule in the desert of Utah at 10:52 a.m. EDT Sunday. Screaming into Earth's atmosphere Sunday at 7 miles per second, a precious ½ ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

In this photo provided by NASA, recovery teams participate in field rehearsals to prepare for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission at the Department of Defense ...

OSIRIS-REx follows up on earlier sample return missions — including Stardust, which brought back samples of cometary and interstellar dust in 2006 under the leadership of University of ...

Asteroid dirt, rocks and debris go flying after the sample collection arm of NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe fires pressurized gas into the regolith of the asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020.

OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and snagged a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020. Since then, the spacecraft has been making its way back to Earth to drop off its precious cargo.

The Bennu sample contained about 4.7 percent carbon, as measured by the Carnegie Institution for Science, according to Daniel Glavin, the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis lead at NASA’s Goddard Space ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert. CNN values your feedback 1.