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The climactic end of a seven-year voyage comes Sunday when a NASA capsule is due to land in the Utah desert, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.

Calculating the way three things orbit each other is notoriously tricky -- but a new study may reveal 12,000 new ways to make it work.

On Sunday, September 24th, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will deliver samples from the asteroid Benny. The post OSIRIS-REx Returns This Sunday! appeared first on Universe Today.

After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security - Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu ...

NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

Hey NASA, you've just landed your first samples from an asteroid! Where are they going next? Houston, of course.

NASA successfully recovered a capsule containing samples of asteroid Bennu taken by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020.

A capsule from a NASA spacecraft landed in the Utah desert Sept. 24, completing a seven-year mission to return samples from a near Earth asteroid. The post OSIRIS-REx sample capsule lands in Utah appeared first on SpaceN...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch from California early Monday morning (Sept. 25), carrying 21 Starlink satellites to orbit.

With NASA planning more missions to space in the future, scientists are studying how to mitigate health hazards that come with space flight.