NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has begun its 1.4 billion mile journey back to Earth — and it's carrying historic asteroid samples By Sophie Lewis May 11, 2021 / 9:21 AM EDT / CBS News ...

OSIRIS-REx will travel to an asteroid called Bennu, a 500-meter-wide beast moving at 63,000 mph on average. At the asteroid, OSIRIS-REx will do a detailed survey---make maps, measure motion ...

Friday, the satellite OSIRIS-REx swung around Earth on a slingshot journey toward a nearby asteroid waiting to be studied. OSIRIS-REx was launched by NASA a year ago this month to travel to the ...

Millions of dollars of technology was launched out of the earth’s atmosphere on top of an Atlas 5 rocket on Sept. 8, and a team of over 40 ASU students and faculty watched with bated breath as the ...

OSIRIS-REx put itself on course for Earth with a crucial thruster firing on Sunday (Sept. 10). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

OSIRIS-REx began its trip in September of 2016 and didn’t achieve insertion into Bennu’s orbit until December 31st, 2018.

OSIRIS-REx’s next target, Apophis, also makes regular close approaches to Earth — but NASA has confirmed that this asteroid won’t be striking the planet on any of its next three approaches ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission launched in 2016 to collect samples of the asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth. See photos from the mission here.

For the past year, NASA's OSIRIS-REx satellite has been on a solar orbit in our galaxy, readying itself for its ultimate goal of heading out to the asteroid Bennu, surveying it, and grabbing a ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way to Earth to drop off rocky samples from asteroid Bennu on Sunday, marking NASA’s first attempt to retrieve a piece of a pure space rock. The highly ...