The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...

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, ...

OSIRIS-REx found that Bennu’s surface was far rougher ... achieved on the Torino Scale happened in 2004 when asteroid 99942 Apophis reached a rating of four before further observations ...

While the team works on this, NASA's OSIRIS-REx has been renamed OSIRIS-APEX, and will attempt to get up close to asteroid 99942 Apophis following a close encounter by the asteroid with Earth in 2029.