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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft changed how we think about asteroids. Here's how.
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNASA's OSIRIS-REx mission taught astronomers how little they know about space rocks. They might be...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission almost bit the dust — then Queen guitarist Brian May stepped in
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAn artist's illustration of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft poised to land on the asteroid Bennu. On Sept....
How asteroid Bennu caught NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft by surprise and nearly killed it along the...
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA mass of gravel and dirt ejected from the surface of asteroid Bennu by the touchdown of NASA's...
OSIRIS-REx probe will bring pristine asteroid samples to Earth today. Watch it live
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA woman in a baseball cap examines a mock sample-return capsule in a desert landscape. Update for 11...
OSIRIS-REx used a Tesla-esque navigation system to capture 4.5 billion-year-old regolith
Engadget· 8 months agoNASA's pioneering OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully returned from its journey to the asteroid...
OSIRIS-REx science chief reveals NASA's 1st asteroid sampling mission nearly didn't make it...
Space via Yahoo News· 9 months agoDante Lauretta, the chief scientist of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, talks about the unexpected...
We Did It! OSIRIS-REx Successfully Returned Asteroid Samples This Sunday
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOSIRIS-REx Successfully Returned Asteroid SamplesMARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY - Getty Images...
How NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will help protect Earth against asteroid Bennu and its flyby in 2182
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAsteroid Bennu is the space rock with the highest known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200...
OSIRIS-REx: Purdue scientist will be one of the first to examine asteroid material
Journal & Courier via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — After more than a decade of work, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid-study project is...
Asteroid NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission landed on had a surface like a ‘pit of plastic balls’
Engadget· 2 years agoNearly two years ago, NASA made history when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly “tagged” 101955 Bennu...