OSIRIS-REx is an acronym for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, ... Johnson Space Center also contains samples from the moon, meteorites, and orbital debris.

The OSIRIS-REx Bennu sample now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. In this image, you can see the specimen before the container was sealed. The sample’s official ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of ... But meteorites don't get the princess treatment that Bennu samples did ...

2.9K. 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 to scoop up a piece of an asteroid and send it back to Earth is about to rendezvous with its target.. After a two-year journey through the solar system, the spacecraft ...

OSIRIS-REx is renamed OSIRIS-APEX and sent to Apophis, a 1,100-foot-wide asteroid expected to pass Earth at a distance of 20,000 miles in 2029. Jan. 19, 2024 : TAGSAM is opened and Bennu samples ...

The AZ meteorite fell near the Costa Rican town of the same name, coincidentally also in 2019, and was donated to the Chicago Field Museum. As a CM2 carbonaceous chondrite, its composition is ...

NASA's OSIRIS REx mission cost $1.16 billion for just under 9 ounces of asteroid dust. But it's hardly the most expensive material in science. Here's where it ranks.

“From OSIRIS-REx we know that these particle ejection events are much more frequent than these high-velocity impacts,” said Heck, “so they probably play a more important role in determining the makeup ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of ... But meteorites don't get the princess treatment that Bennu samples did ...