NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the sample will be preserved for future generations of humanity, the best ...

OSIRIS-REx was one of NASA’s most impressive successes in years. In 2020, it successfully touched down on a near-Earth asteroid called 101955 Bennu, collected a sample, and eventually returned ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

HOUSTON—Osiris-Rex, the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission, embarked late Sept. 8 on a seven-year, round trip encounter with the Near Earth Object Bennu.

HOUSTON—Two solar-powered NASA planetary mission spacecraft have achieved recent deep-space milestones: Juno while orbiting Jupiter and Osiris-Rex while outbound on its seven-year sample return ...

Announcing the winner of the Museum’s 2025 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement: OSIRIS-REx NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission achieved the first asteroid sample return by the United States, as well ...