On one side of the bay is the constellation Orion, depicted as the god Osiris. He is accompanied by Sothis, the divine personification of Sirius—the brightest star in the night sky—in the guis ...

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life. transcript NASA ...

After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an asteroid ...

The agency will host a webcast today at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) to reveal the asteroid dirt and gravel that its OSIRIS-REx mission delivered to Earth last month. You can watch the event live here ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized ...