Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

Unravel the mysteries of Egyptian buildings at Karnak, Giza, Luxor and Djoser, including the great pyramids, the Sphinx, secret tunnels and recently discovered ancient cities ...

Osiris goes on to rule over the dead. In Plutarch’s Greek version, Osiris is tricked to lie in a coffin, which floats out to sea before washing up at the city of Byblos. There, Isis removes Osiris’ ...

A small amount of "extra bonus sample" from the asteroid Bennu is visible on the outside of the TAGSAM device that contains the bulk of the sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.

The preliminary analysis of the contents of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security -- Regolith Explorer) mission was unveiled at the Johnson Space ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a capsule containing several ounces of rocky, dusty material it collected from the asteroid Bennu on Sunday, successfully closing out the agency’s ...

The capsule, which landed in the Utah desert at 3.52pm, contained around 250g of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu as part of NASA's Osiris-Rex mission. Experts say the carbon-rich ...

Seven years after the NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx first launched from American soil in 2016, the Sample Return Capsule — or SRC — made a relatively gentle landing inside the Utah Test and ...