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

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NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the sample will be preserved for future generations of humanity, the best-case ...

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A new book tells the story of the mastermind who directed NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx mission Diane Tedeschi Initially, your entire group was responsible for selecting the landing site. Ultimately, you ...

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

OSIRIS-REx is short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer. It launched in September 2016 for the seven-year mission to Bennu and back.

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Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission team has been busy bringing down the data from the spacecraft and analyzing it. “This is really exciting, especially for me because this is my first mission,” Knutson said.

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...