The OSIRIS-REx program is scheduled to wind down at the end of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025. But people will keep studying the samples. They’re at NASA, they’re available for research.

Many amino acids, whether they're used in biology or not, come in two mirror-image forms. Each molecule has a central carbon ...

Building on this foundation, Dr. Jason Dworkin from NASA Goddard described his work analyzing meteorites and asteroid samples—what he calls "witnesses" to the early solar system. The OSIRIS-REx ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in 2016, with the spacecraft returning to Earth in September 2023 with 4 ounces of dust ...

A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...

OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to arrive at Bennu in two years, then spend a year surveying the asteroid before collecting a sample that will be returned to Earth for analysis.

OSIRIS-REx is short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer. It launched in September 2016 for the seven-year mission to Bennu and back.

Amino acids are the building blocks of protein that support nearly every biological process in the body, including tissue repair, enzyme production, and synthesis of hormones, she says.

Amino acids are the building blocks of protein that support nearly every biological process in the body, including tissue repair, enzyme production, and synthesis of hormones, she says.

T. rex is the deadliest land predator ever to live, and there has long been a fascination with the dinosaur that has been extinct for about 66 million years. Khankhuuluu, a newly discovered ...