NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off.

Dec. 3, 2018: OSIRIS-REx arrives at asteroid Bennu. Dec. 31, 2019: OSIRIS-REx begins orbiting Bennu. Oct. 20, 2020: Sample successfully collected from Bennu. April 7, 2021: Final flyover of Bennu.

NASA will live stream the final moments of its groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx mission that will see it bring home samples collected from the Bennu asteroid in 2020.

By October 2020, the OSIRIS-REx had collected pieces of Bennu and started its three-year journey back to Earth. OSIRIS-REx glided by Earth on Sunday to drop off a sample capsule filled with pieces ...

On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth and dropped a sample of asteroid Bennu to Utah's West Desert. The mission went "absolutely perfectly," and NASA scientists hope the sample will ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission capsule contains an 8.8-ounce asteroid sample that could help scientists worldwide learn more about the solar system's origins.

The OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has been sent off to study the asteroid Apophis – also known as the “God of Chaos”- to “take advantage of the asteroid’s 2029 flyby of Earth… ...