Osiris

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  Woman Covered With Thousands Of Tumours Due To Rare Disease, Face Completely Distorted

  Charmaine Sahadeo has always had the condition but they were largely unnoticed till her second son Osiris, now 19, was born.

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  Asteroid Bennu's Boulders Act as 'Body Armour' Against Small Meteoroids, Say Researchers

  Scientists think that the boulders on the surface of Asteroid Bennu might be acting as a shield against meteoroids. When a meteoroid collides with Bennu, which is a rubber-pile asteroid formed from a much bigger asteroid, it ends up fracturing, chipping, or breaking apart the boulders. Impactors also create smaller craters on Bennu due to the boul...

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  NASA Shares Photo of Asteroid Bennu as OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads Back to Earth After Collecting Samples

  NASA shared an Instagram post showing the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu, from which the space agency has collected samples using its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which will return to Earth in 2023.

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  OSIRIS-REx Space Probe Heads Home With Asteroid Dust From Bennu

  The US space probe OSIRIS-REx left the orbit of the asteroid Bennu, from which it collected dust samples last year, to begin its long journey back to Earth.

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  NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Safely Tucks Bennu Asteroid Samples for Return to Earth

  NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx tucked over 1kg of asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth after losing some of its precious loot because of a jammed lid, scientists said Thursday.

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  NASA Prepares OSIRIS-REx to Safely Store Leaking Asteroid Samples

  NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is set to begin a new mission to store the particles it scooped up from the asteroid Bennu’s surface which were slowly leaking into space because a flap got wedged open.

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  NASA Working to Prevent Losing Too Much of OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample

  NASA said Friday that its robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx had succeeded in collecting a large sample of particles from the Bennu asteroid this week -- but so much that it was leaking.

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  NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Sent Asteroid Rubble Flying in Successful Sample Grab

  NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft crushed rocks and sent rubble flying as it briefly touched an asteroid, a strong indication that samples were collected for return to Earth, officials said Wednesday.

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  NASA Probe OSIRIS-REx Briefly Touches Asteroid Bennu to Collect Rare Samples

  After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday to collect rock and dust samples in a precision operation 200 million miles (330 million kilometres) from Earth.

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  NASA OSIRIS-REx Probe to Touch Down on Asteroid Bennu on October 20

  After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday.

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  Destiny 2: Forsaken Review

  Destiny 2: Forsaken is the third expansion for Destiny 2 following Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris and Destiny 2: Warmind. Is it any good? Find out in our Destiny 2: Forsaken review.

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  Rescued Navy Man Abhilash Tomy Says "Soldier Inside" Helped Him Survive

  Abhilash Tomy, a naval commander who was rescued from international waters earlier this week, today thanked his colleagues in the Indian Navy and sailors from other countries for saving him against all odds.

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  Vessel Carrying Rescued Commander Abhilash Tomy Reaches Amsterdam Island

  French fishing vessel Osiris carrying the Golden Globe Race (GGR) skipper and Indian Naval officer, Commander Abhilash Tomy, reached off Amsterdam isle on Tuesday.

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  When 'God Of Life' Gave A New Lease Of Life To Abhilash Tomy

  In Egyptian mythology, Osiris is referred to as the God of life, death, the flooding of the Nile and the afterlife.

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  Navy Officer, Stranded In Indian Ocean, Rescued In International Mission

  Navy officer Abhilash Tomy, stranded in the Indian Ocean near Australia since Friday after a deadly storm hit his solo boat, has been rescued, the Navy spokesperson said. Commander Tomy, who suffered a spinal injury, is conscious, relievedand has been shifted to the French fishing vessel Osiris.The Osiris had sent a stretcher, water and first aid k...