The climactic end of a seven-year voyage comes Sunday when a Nasa capsule is due to land in the Utah desert, carrying to ...

When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swings by Earth on Sunday, it is expected to deliver a rare cosmic gift: a pristine sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. If all goes according to plan, ...

A seven-year space voyage comes to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule lands in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid ...

Doppler data indicates that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released its sample capsule toward Earth at 6:42 ... Image Lab About an hour prior to the release, during a crucial team briefing, operators ...

Even that small amount, NASA says, should "help us better understand the types of asteroids that could threaten Earth" and ...

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