The sample is expected to land at the U.S. Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range, a military base located less than 100 miles west of Salt Lake City, scientists said during a Friday ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert. CNN values your feedback 1.

On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth and dropped a sample of asteroid Bennu to Utah's West Desert. The mission went "absolutely perfectly," and NASA scientists hope the sample will ...

NASA's Osiris-REx mission has successfully returned a pristine sample of asteroid back to Earth. This cupful-or-so of space rock could shed light on the solar system's origins.

OSIRIS-REx's asteroid-sample return capsule will land in Utah on Sept. 24 at around 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT). Here's the latest.

After course corrections to line up on the Utah landing site, the OSIRIS-REx mothership released the sample return capsule at 6:42 a.m. EDT. With the capsule safely on its way, the OSIRIS-REx ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule and its parachute are seen by recovery teams from a helicopter after its successful landing in Utah on Sept. 24, 2023. (Image credit: NASA) ...

The team then guided it to arrival at Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018, followed by the search for a safe sample-collection site between 2019 and 2020, sample collection on Oct. 20, 2020, and the return trip ...

NASA scientists have begun analyzing a sample from asteroid Bennu, revealing complex organic molecules. The asteroid returned to Earth in Utah's west desert in September 2023.

Osiris-Rex launched in September 2016 and reached Bennu in 2018, then spent nearly two years orbiting the asteroid before venturing close enough to sink its robot arm into the loose surface on Oct ...

The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...

A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid streaked through Earth's atmosphere on Sunday and parachuted into the Utah desert, delivering ...