The OSIRIS-REx mission launched from Cape Canaveral on Sept. 8, 2016 towards Bennu. The probe performed an Earth flyby in September 2017, which is a key maneuver that allows it to reach nearby ...

The samples could change what we know about the origins of the solar system. A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission will return rock samples to Earth on Sunday. NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles ...

Seven years ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched to collect asteroid samples from the near-Earth object Bennu. Today, the samples made landfall on Earth, closing a long-awaited chapter ...

OSIRIS-REx has finally brought its payload home. On Sunday, the mission—which endeavored to study and collect samples from the asteroid Bennu—dropped its payload off as it swings by Earth its ...

He’s been the project scientist for OSIRIS-REx since NASA accepted the mission proposal in 2011, and has been involved in the mission’s planning since its conception in 2004. “You can change ...

OSIRIS-REx, according to NASA, stands for "Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer." The mission, according to NASA officials, consisted of a trip ...

Completing a seven-year mission to not only study but gather and return samples of an asteroid, the OSIRIS-REx mission comes to end end in the Utah desert. Posted 2023-09-24T14:02:10+00:00 ...

OSIRIS-REx—the first U.S. mission to attempt a sample return from a space rock—has successfully sent materials from asteroid Bennu back to Earth ...

NASA scientists are struggling to open OSIRIS-REx's primary sample container, but the mission has already exceeded the agency's goal of bringing at least 60 grams of asteroid Bennu back to Earth.

NASA will power up OSIRIS-REx in the early morning on Sept. 24 and ensure the probe's trajectory and orientation are aligned to jettison the mission's sample return capsule.

The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the grayish, lumpy object and get it really close to the surface so the probe could pluck up some space rock samples with a robotic ...