Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been seven years since the launch of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect and return samples of asteroid Bennu, and the long ...

On Oct. 20, 2020, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission successfully collected a sample from asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-Rex team has made two big decisions since the touch-and-go event.

On the morning of Sept. 22, OSIRIS-REx — NASA’s asteroid-hunting spacecraft —passed under the Earth at just 10,711 miles over Antarctica. The craft continued northward, as it successfully completed ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft recently undertook a daring journey, getting closer to the sun than ever before. This maneuver, completed on January 2, saw the spacecraft approach within 25 million ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory waited seven years for the return of its NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx. The spacecraft launched in 2016 with the goal of reaching ...

Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...

Each second of the capsule's descent has been calculated in anticipation for NASA's first asteroid sample return mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...