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What is Nasa’s Osiris Rex space mission?

The US space agency will bring home the largest asteroid sample ever returned to Earth on Sunday.

The Independent UK

NASA's first asteroid samples land in Utah desert

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

France 24

Bennu asteroid may strike Earth in 2182

The most likely date for Bennu to hit Earth is Sept. 24, 2182 — exactly 159 years after the mission returns

Salon

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What will ‘cosmic detective’ OSIRIS-Rex bring back on September 24? | Explained

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will drop a capsule of pristine asteroid material in the Utah desert on September 24. The astro-material may provide insights into how planets formed, what materials were present in the early Solar System, and how life on the earth began. OSIRIS-Rex had to precisely choreograph a celestial…

The Hindu

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Will Drop An Asteroid Sample Sunday — Here’s How To Track It

But like a college kid dropping off their laundry, the spaceship is just passing through on its way to another adventure.

Inverse

UK researchers to study sample of asteroid Bennu as part of Nasa mission

The sample, which was collected as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission, will return to Earth on Sunday.

The Independent UK

Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission: asteroid sample plummets towards Earth

Capsule will contain some of oldest materials formed in solar system

The Guardian - UK

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Inside NASA’s Historic OSIRIS-REx Mission To Bring A Chunk of An Asteroid Back To Earth

On Sunday, NASA will finally witness the descent of its first asteroid sample retrieval mission.

Inverse

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

WEKU

What is Nasa’s Osiris-Rex capsule and when will it land on Earth?

The capsule collected a dust sample from a distant asteroid three years ago and scientists are about to get their first chance to look at it

Evening Standard

A Nasa spacecraft is on course to deliver material from an asteroid to Earth – here's what we could learn

Around 15 years ago, I was on a European Space Agency (Esa) committee, looking at Esa’s strategy for proposed forthcoming space missions. Under consideration was a mission to an asteroid. Over dinner, one of the committee members, an astrophysicist, quizzed me on why we needed to visit one of these…

The Conversation

NASA set to deliver biggest asteroid sample yet: What you need to know

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is expected to drop 250g of pebbles and dust from asteroid Bennu after seven-year quest.

Al Jazeera

NASA conducts crucial drop test ahead of Sept. 24 arrival of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample

The OSIRIS-REx team performed a crucial drop test on Wednesday (Aug. 30), practicing what they'll do when the mission's real asteroid sample comes home on Sept. 24.

Space

NASA discussing September arrival of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample: Watch live today

NASA will discuss the September arrival of asteroid samples collected by its OSIRIS-REx probe during a press conference today (Aug. 30), and you can watch it live.

Space

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LiveScience

What is OSIRIS-REx? Everything you need to know about the 1st NASA spacecraft to land on an asteroid

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 Earth.

Space

OSIRIS-REx science chief reveals NASA's 1st asteroid sampling mission nearly didn't make it (exclusive interview)

Dante Lauretta, the chief scientist of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, talks about the unexpected challenges of NASA's first asteroid sampling attempt in an exclusive interview.

Space

Queen Rock legend Brian May launches Space.com astrophotography competition for signed copy of his asteroid book (video)

Sir Brian May and NASA's OSIRIS-REx chief scientist Dante Lauretta challenge Space.com readers to photograph solar system objects to win a signed copy of their new book about asteroid Bennu.

Space

How long can an asteroid 'survive'?

Asteroids are left over from the early solar system. Here's how they get destroyed.

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Queen legend Brian May helped NASA ace its asteroid-sampling mission, new book reveals

Queen guitarist Brian May and the chief scientist of NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx mission have collaborated on a book about the asteroid Bennu — and it's not a PR stunt.

Zenger

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Rehearses Retrieval Of Asteroid Sample Capsule

Recovery teams simulate field operations for the safe recovery of fragments from asteroid Bennu

LiveScience

How long can an asteroid 'survive'?

Asteroids are left over from the early solar system. Here's how they get destroyed.

Space

Queen guitarist Brian May to release a book of 3D images of asteroid Bennu

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is about to release a book of 3D photographs of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, based on images gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft.

The Guardian - US

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May to release 3D atlas of asteroid

The rocker astrophysicist is co-author of a three-dimensional atlas of Bennu, an asteroid explored by the Osiris-Rex probe in 2020

Space

Asteroid sample incoming: OSIRIS-REx team preps for September landing of Bennu bits

Recovery teams are gearing up for the Sept. 24 landing of OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample in the Utah desert.

Space

What would it be like to walk on an asteroid? Scientists explain (video)

How would astronauts walk on an asteroid? With the potential to sink into killer "ball pits" or to take jumps that launch them into space, the answer is "carefully."

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