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OSIRIS-REx Completed at Lockheed Martin

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 ...
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OSIRIS-REx Speeds Toward Asteroid Rendezvous

NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of ...
Space.com

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft changed how we think about asteroids. Here's how.

Looking at OSIRIS-REx's target asteroid Bennu through telescopes, astronomers thought that it would be rather similar to other known space rocks. They were in for a surprise. When you purchase through ...
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Scientists just found the ingredients for life floating through space

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from the asteroid Bennu containing amino acids, water-rich minerals, nucleobases, and even sugars linked to RNA and DNA chemistry. Scientists now believe ...
Space.com

Will NASA's OSIRIS-REx stick its asteroid sample landing? Scientists are 'very much confident' as zero hour nears

"OSIRIS-REx has been so successful because we continue to pay attention to the details." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's the ...
Forbes

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Returns Safely To Earth—Scientists Hope It Will Bring Evidence Of How Life Began

A NASA explorer spacecraft returned to Earth Sunday morning after nearly seven years spent in space on the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect pieces of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu, which scientists say ...
USA Today

Asteroid Bennu samples suggest space rocks could have helped seed life on Earth

Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...
IFLScience

OSIRIS-REx Has Not Brought “Asteroid Germs” Back To Earth

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Wired

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth

Seven years after it left for the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is returning with a celestial souvenir. On the morning of Sunday, September 24, as it passes by Earth the ...

OSIRIS-REx bringing asteroid samples to Earth - NASA explains

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...
Time

How NASA Captured a Piece of the Solar System's Past From an Ancient Asteroid

Infrared sensors on the ground detected the heat signature of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s sample-return capsule when it slammed into the atmosphere at more than 45,000 km/h (27,650 mph), at 8:42 a.m.
CNN

An asteroid sample is about to land on Earth. Here’s what to expect

Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swings by ...