The OSIRIS-REx mission used some pretty fascinating tech to autonomously acquire rocks and dust from an asteroid called Bennu. Asteroids can act as time capsules, and Bennu reflects what was ...

OSIRIS-REx samples have a phosphate crust never seen before in meteorites, Lauretta said. These high concentrations of phosphate have been detected in extraterrestrial ocean worlds, he said.

In fact, it's not even the first time we've found these tantalizing building blocks of life on an asteroid at all. OSIRIS-REx, however, does have its own reasons to boast.

The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target. It's on a path to rendezvous with the Apophis asteroid when it whizzes ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in September 2016 and reached a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu in December 2018. After nearly two years of observations, the spacecraft landed on the asteroid and ...

Magnesium-sodium phosphate found in NASA's OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample suggests Bennu, seen above, could have originated from an ancient, primitive ocean world. Credit: NASA What the team found was ...

Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, discusses his next final frontier. By Katrina Miller Last fall, a NASA spacecraft named ...

With launch only 15 months away, the team of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona, is preparing to deliver its instruments for integration with the spacec… ...

Checking in with the OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return team and scientists from SPACEWATCH. We visit the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory to learn about recent missions to visit ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...