Mar 23
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To prepare for OSIRIS-REx’s pending touchdown onto the surface of Bennu, NASA used the spacecraft to photograph…
Mar 2
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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft set out on September 8, 2016 to study the asteroid Bennu. But last fall, one of its…
Dec 13
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The OSIRIS-REx team has decided on a location to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu. It’s a 460-foot-wide crate…
Dec 5
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Images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft are helping scientists to understand why small particles are…
Jun 18 2019
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NASA’s asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is currently in position around the tiny, near-Earth asteroid…
Mar 19 2019
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NASA scientists have released a boatload of data from OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Bennu. There…
Jan 28 2019
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The asteroid-orbiting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has released some of its most detailed images yet of its target, the…
Jan 2 2019
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The new year has brought important milestones for two space missions—but only one of them deals in the very survival…
Dec 10 2018
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has already detected evidence of water on its target, the asteroid Bennu, just a week…
Dec 7 2018
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission won’t just take pretty pictures of the asteroid Bennu—it will also help scientists learn…
Dec 3 2018
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx arrived today at its target asteroid, Bennu, an important step on its mission to collect a sample…
Nov 1 2018
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More than two years after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has beamed back what the space agency is calling…
Mar 20 2018
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Recent headlines have contained lots of asteroid-nuking talk. There’s a team of Russian scientists zapping mini…
Jan 3 2018
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently en route to Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid that could contain the basic…
Sep 22 2017
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Right now, NASA’s Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx)…
Sep 11 2017
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Something just popped into one NASA telescope’s view, and it isn’t a star or a meteor—it’s one of our spacecraft.…
Feb 3 2017
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Right now, OSIRIS-REx is one of the busiest spacecrafts in the solar system. OSIRIS-REx, which blasted off in…
Sep 8 2016
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NASA’s asteroid-skimming spacecraft just blasted off into space without a hitch, completing the first step in a…
Sep 8 2016
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Tonight, NASA will send a spacecraft on a seven-year long journey to bring us back some dirt from an…
Sep 7 2016
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Tomorrow night, an asteroid-bound mission will launch towards a shadowy space rock, Bennu. There, it will scoop up a…