In an October update, NASA officials explained that the top of the canister, which has been previously estimated to hold ...

NASA thinks it knows why the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe's return capsule failed to deploy its drogue parachute as planned while descending through Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 24. The problem, which did ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission narrowly avoided a parachute failure, with an investigation revealing the cause and stressing the need ...

Lauretta called a crash like the one experienced by NASA's Genesis mission as the "worst-case scenario" for OSIRIS-REx. In ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu was a smashing success. The spacecraft delivered its ...

NASA said it found that inconsistent wiring label definitions in the design plans likely caused engineers to incorrectly wire the parachutes’ release triggers for the capsule. That resulted in the ...

Explore a tiny asteroid sample's cosmic secrets and its potential impact on our understanding of the universe.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed under parachute in the Utah desert on Sept. 24, 2023, and safely delivered a ...

NASA has provided asteroid Bennu samples to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London, for an in-depth analysis ...

REx probe dropped home samples of asteroid Bennu and is now headed on a bonus mission with leftover fuel to yet another space ...

The team is also analyzing a sample from asteroid Ryugu brought by the Hayabusa2 explorer of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...