OSIRIS-REx is due to make its return to Earth on Sept. 24. Here's everything you need to know about the mission and what it may reveal about the beginning — and the potential end — of life on ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

OSIRIS-REx releases the asteroid sample container return capsule. 7:02 a.m. EDT (5:02 a.m. MDT, 1102 GMT) OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fires thrusters to set course away from Earth, and toward asteroid ...

On Sunday September 24, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft will release a capsule carrying the sample when it is 63,000 miles from the Earth’s surface. The capsule will pierce the Earth’s atmosphere ...

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft was launched by Nasa on September 8th, 2016. It collected a sample – roughly 250 grammes – of rocks and dust from the surface of the asteroid Bennu on October 20th, 2020.

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft was launched by Nasa on September 8 2016. It collected a sample – roughly 250 grams – of rocks and dust from the surface of an asteroid, called Bennu, on October 20 2020.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft was launched by Nasa on 8 September 2016. It collected a sample - roughly 250 grams - of rocks and dust from the surface of an asteroid, called Bennu, on 20 October 2020.