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- NASA’s Osiris-Rex capsule lands in Utah with Bennu asteroid sample https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2023/sep/24/bennu-asteroid-sample-nasa-osiris-rex-mission-earth-updates 3 comments
- Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/surprising-phosphate-finding-in-nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample/ 41 comments
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Earth: Live updates https://www.space.com/news/live/nasa-osiris-rex-asteroid-bennu-sample-return-updates 6 comments
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-osiris-rex-spacecraft-heads-for-earth-with-asteroid-sample 7 comments space
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-osiris-rex-spacecraft-collects-significant-amount-of-asteroid 23 comments space
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid Bennu https://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-collects-significant-amount-of-asteroid-bennu 15 comments space
- Stunning images show NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stirring up rocks on an asteroid https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/21/21527475/nasa-osiris-rex-asteroid-bennu-sampling-rocks-images 47 comments space
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx grabs rocks from asteroid in historic mission https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/21/nasas-osiris-rex-grabs-rocks-from-asteroid-in-historic-mission 154 comments space
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-osiris-rex-spacecraft-successfully-touches-asteroid 3 comments space
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully taps an asteroid in attempt to a grab sample https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/20/21525399/nasa-osiris-rex-spacecraft-asteroid-bennu-tag-success 4 comments space
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully taps an asteroid in attempt to a grab sample https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/20/21525399/nasa-osiris-rex-spacecraft-asteroid-bennu-tag-success 5 comments worldnews
- At 18:12 EDT (22:12 GMT), NASA's OSIRIS-REx will land on, sample, and leave asteroid Bennu - and you can watch LIVE! https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/jepca9/at_1812_edt_2212_gmt_nasas_osirisrex_will_land_on/ 23 comments space
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Asteroid https://reterraform.com/nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-finds-evidence-of-ancient-rivers-on-asteroid/ 3 comments space
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Buzzes Earth on Way to Distant Asteroid Bennu https://www.space.com/38238-osiris-rex-asteroid-spacecraft-earth-flyby.html 15 comments space
- NASA is currently showing a live feed of the OSIRIS-REx launch https://youtu.be/udmhhpasmvw 3 comments space
- Cameras for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/osiris-rex-ocams-suite.jpg 4 comments space
- NASA's stream of the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return is live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdwyqctp908 2 comments space
- Now that the sample is sealed up in the Sample Return Capsule, NASA's OSIRIS-REx finally shared this video from TAG https://www.asteroidmission.org/navcam2_tag_single_loop_complete_small_gif/ 25 comments space
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is ready to snatch samples from the surface of asteroid Bennu today. It will then begin a year-long trip back to Earth, where the samples will be analyzed with sophisticated lab equipment. https://astronomy.com/news/2020/10/osiris-rex-poised-to-snatch-samples-from-asteroid-bennu-tomorrow 3 comments space
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission prepares for touchdown on an asteroid https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/ibjgjx/nasas_osirisrex_mission_prepares_for_touchdown_on/ 5 comments space
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closer to the surface of asteroid Bennu than it was to the launch pad as it sat atop its rocket (680 meters) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/osiris-rex-breaks-another-orbit-record 3 comments space
- NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu which may be on collision course with the Earth https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/nasa-spacecraft-gets-up-close-with-asteroid-on-collision-course-with-earth-118120400403_1.html?utm_source=seo&utm_medium=st 3 comments space
- NASA’s Osiris-Rex Arriving at Asteroid Bennu After a Two-Year Journey - The spacecraft will begin its close study of the primitive space rock, seeking clues to the early solar system. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/science/osiris-rex-bennu-asteroid-arrival.html 5 comments space
- NASA announces the award of OSIRIS-REx. It will be the first mission to return samples back from an asteroid. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/osiris-rex.html 7 comments space
- How NASA Captured Asteroid Dust to Find the Origins of Life | The sample of the space rock Bennu that OSIRIS-REx collected could unlock an ancient existential mystery https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-nasa-captured-asteroid-dust-to-find-the-origins-of-life-180983274/ 6 comments space
- Osiris-Rex: Probe risks losing asteroid sample after door jams - A Nasa probe sent to collect rock from an asteroid several hundred million kilometres from Earth has grabbed so much that samples are spilling out. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54672691 7 comments worldnews
- A black hole 30 000 light-years away from Earth on an asteroid called Bennu was unexpectedly captured by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in November last year https://thepopularist.com/2020/03/black-hole-photobombs-nasas-imaging-spectrometer/ 5 comments space
- NASA’s Newly Arrived OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Already Discovers Water on Asteroid https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-newly-arrived-osiris-rex-spacecraft-already-discovers-water-on-asteroid 25 comments space
- Brian May Guest Blog: Stereoscopic Images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sampling Head – OSIRIS-REx Mission | NASA https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2023/10/17/brian-may-guest-blog-stereoscopic-images-from-nasas-osiris-rex-sampling-head/ 3 comments space
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is overflowing with samples from asteroid Bennu. In fact, it collected so much material that its mylar flap (meant to seal everything in) is now wedged open and leaking. https://astronomy.com/news/2020/10/osiris-rex-is-literally-overflowing-with-asteroid-samples-from-bennu 3 comments space
- NASA has picked the "Nightingale" site on Asteroid Bennu for the OSIRIS-REx sample collection! https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/x-marks-the-spot-nasa-selects-site-for-asteroid-sample-collection 5 comments space
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Enters Close Orbit Around Bennu, Breaking Record. https://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-enters-close-orbit-around-bennu-breaking-record 12 comments space
- NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Curation Team Reveals Remaining Asteroid Sample https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-osiris-rex-curation-team-reveals-remaining-asteroid-sample/ 3 comments science
- Asteroid NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission landed on had a surface like a ‘pit of plastic balls’ https://www.engadget.com/nasa-osiris-rex-bennu-finding-plastic-ball-pit-184718806.html 11 comments space
- Scientists peer inside an asteroid: New findings from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could be weaker and less dense than its outer layers—like a crème-filled chocolate egg flying though space. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/10/08/scientists-peer-inside-asteroid 3 comments space
- Asteroid Bennu ejected about a dozen bursts of high-speed particles from its surface since NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission reached the porous blue rock late last year. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/03/osiris-rex-caught-asteroid-bennu-ejecting-bursts-of-strange-high-speed-particles 8 comments space
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx was so good at grabbing rocks from the asteroid Bennu that they’re overflowing - jamming the lid at the end of the arm open and letting part of the asteroid sample escape out into space https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/23/21531060/osiris-rex-nasa-sample-pebbles-asteroid-bennu-escape 13 comments space
- The Nasa spacecraft Osiris-Rex has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records. It entered orbit on Monday around Bennu, the smallest celestial body ever to be orbited by a spacecraft, at just 500 metres across, barely a mile above the asteroid’s surface, another record. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/01/space-probe-osiris-rex-makes-closest-ever-orbit-around-smallest-object 70 comments space
- NASA'S OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu. NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-arrives-at-asteroid-bennu 14 comments space
- When this post is six hours old, the OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft will begin it's three-week orbital insertion maneuver around the Near-Earth asteroid Bennu! • Watch live on NASA TV at 11:45am ET and follow the mission on r/osirisrex! https://www.asteroidmission.org/orex-arrival-5-days-carousel/ 5 comments space
