On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

OSIRIS-REx will now travel to and study Apophis, another near-Earth asteroid, for 18 months. The spacecraft's name will change to OSIRIS-APEX for OSIRIS-APophis EXplorer.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.A team ...

OSIRIS-REx is renamed OSIRIS-APEX and sent to Apophis, a 1,100-foot-wide asteroid expected to pass Earth at a distance of 20,000 miles in 2029. Jan. 19, 2024 : TAGSAM is opened and Bennu samples ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off. This week. the spacecraft ...

Scientists have discovered an abundance of material after opening the OSIRIS-REx canister containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu, which could offer key insights into the origins of ...

OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touches down in western Utah (animation). (Image credit: NASA) Over the next five minutes, the pod's main chute will slow its descent to approximately 11 miles-per ...

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.

Looking at OSIRIS-REx's target asteroid Bennu through telescopes, astronomers thought that it would be rather similar to other known space rocks. They were in for a surprise.

OSIRIS-REx recovered an estimated 250 grams of Bennu material, more than four times the 60 grams the mission had targeted. And as the science team began dissembling the sample return capsule at ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.