Using positional data collected over the course of OSIRIS-REx's two-year sample return mission, scientists were able to improve their knowledge of Bennu's trajectory by a factor of 20.

NASA's pioneering OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully returned from its journey to the asteroid Bennu. The robotic spacecraft briefly set down on the celestial body in a first-of-its-kind attempt ...

A training model of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule is seen during a drop test on Aug. 30, 2023, at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber ...

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2182.

A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been steadily progressing since the spacecraft arrived at the diamond-shaped space rock known as Bennu a few months back, but not everything has gone completely to ...

In October 2020, a NASA spacecraft swooped in on Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and scooped up rock and dirt from its surface. It then packed away the material and prepared for return to Earth. It ...

As well, NASA says that observations made by OSIRIS-REx have confirmed that a 2013 model of the asteroid "closely predicted" its actual shape, rotation rate, diameter, and other aspects. There is ...

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.

Planetary geologist joins extended OSIRIS-REx mission to visit another asteroid Renamed OSIRIS-APEX, the extended mission will study Apophis, which will have a close encounter with Earth in 2029 ...

NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the ...

The OSIRIS-REx craft launched more than two years ago, in September of 2016, and has been traveling to the asteroid, Bennu, since then. It's expected to finally make its approach Monday at noon EST.