NASA struggles to open container holding large sample from asteroid Bennu

NASA finally unlocks long-sought asteroid sample, with some decent-sized rocks

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.

After seven years in space and over 4 billion miles traveled, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully collected and delivered the first U.S. sample from a near-Earth asteroid. Yet, after all this time and travel, the spacecraft will not retire.

NASA and the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission team have won the National

Here's a little bit about why we're so excited.

Scientists said they got more material than expected from the Osiris-Rex mission during its seven-year journey to the asteroid Bennu.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx has been cleared to visit one more asteroid, and it's getting a name change at the same time..

On Sept. 24, the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule – with samples of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu – made its historic return to Earth, marking the end of

Watch a spacecraft deliver an asteroid sample to Earth! Our OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Expl...

NASA used TAGSAM to collect asteroid samples from Benu's surface.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx touched down on Asteroid Bennu, and it is like dropping on a plastic ball pit.

Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, discusses his next final frontier.

A tiny shipment grabbed from a space rock touched down in the Utah desert on Sunday.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016, and after a seven-year trip, the sample capsule containing rocks captured from the asteroid Bennu will land in Utah on Sunday morning.

A team led by NASA in Utah's West Desert is in the final stages of preparing for the arrival of the first U.S. asteroid sample—slated to land on Earth in September.

The sub-surface of asteroid Bennu is a step closer to discovering how the Universe started.

Asteroid Bennu's boulder-covered surface gives it protection against small meteoroid impacts, according to observations of craters by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft. OSIRIS-REx traveled to near-Earth asteroid Bennu

The astromaterials curation team at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has completed the disassembly of the OSIRIS-REx sampler head to reveal the

Move over, moon rocks! Space Center Houston has a new type of space stone in its showcase: a sample of the asteroid Bennu.