NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

OSIRIS-REx is an ongoing mission. It returned samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, and is now moving on to study asteroid Apophis in 2029. When you purchase through links on our ...

It’s the first time the agency has accomplished such a feat. Seven years after launching to space, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth Sunday to deliver the pristine sample from the near ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

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 ...

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. transcript NASA ...

"That would be just heartbreaking, right?" says Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, who compared that scenario to fumbling a ...

OSIRIS-REx's first target, Bennu, is an 85.5 million-ton (77.5 million metric tons) space rock that is on track to swoop within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) of Earth's orbit between ...

Here’s how it works. On Sept. 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission made U.S. history by returning samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth after seven years in deep space. NASA is just one week ...

For more than half a decade, the members of this mission faced multiple technical challenges: building, testing, and launching the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2016; rendezvousing with asteroid Bennu ...