Latest OSIRIS-REx Stories
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Earns Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) team received the American Astronomical Society’s Neil Armstrong…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Collier Trophy
NASA and the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission team have won the National…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Robert Goddard Memorial Trophy
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team was selected as the winner of the National Space Club and Foundation’s 2024 Dr. Robert H. Goddard…
NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023
As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids,…
New US Postage Stamp Commemorates NASA’s Asteroid Sample Delivery
OSIRIS-REx – the first U.S. mission to return a sample collected from an asteroid – got its own postage stamp.
OSIRIS-REx Delivers NASA’s First Asteroid Sample to Earth
On Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023 the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft capped its 7-year mission with…
NASA Ames’ Contributions to OSIRIS-REx
Extraterrestrial rocks and dust – material scooped up from an asteroid – are scheduled to be delivered to Earth on Sept.…
NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of Asteroid Sample Return
NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities ahead of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification,…
NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of Asteroid Sample Return
NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities ahead of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification,…
OSIRIS-REx Blog Posts
Initial Curation of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sample
The initial curation process for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample of asteroid Bennu is moving slower than anticipated, but for the best reason: the sample runneth over.
The OSIRIS-REx Sample Canister Lid is Removed
NASA scientists found dark powder and sand-sized particles on the avionics deck of the OSIRIS-REx science canister when the initial lid was removed today.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Capsule Arrives in Houston
The first U.S. asteroid sample, delivered by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to Earth on Sept. 24, has arrived at its permanent home at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where it will be cared for, stored, and distributed to scientists worldwide.
