Students wore T-shirts and carried stickers with the ... A university-issue lanyard jangled around his neck, just above a bright OSIRIS-REx logo on his shirt. The 18-year-old freshman had enrolled ...

OSIRIS-REx will drop off its Bennu sample at Earth on Sept. 24. It will then head to Apophis, another potentially dangerous space rock, for a rendezvous in 2029. Space.com: The challenges didn't ...

24. OSIRIS-REx science chief reveals NASA's 1st asteroid sampling mission nearly didn't make it (exclusive interview) Dante Lauretta, the chief scientist of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, talks about ...

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 ...

‘A pile of rubble that’s floating in microgravity’ Built and designed by Lockheed Martin in Colorado, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft hasn’t been this close to home in years. On Sept ...

OSIRIS-REx, which aims to visit the asteroid Bennu and return a sample of the space rock back to Earth, isn’t Enos’ first space mission. She’s been involved with NASA missions since the ’90s.