The University of Arizona OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has captured a picture of the Earth and moon in the same frame that took months ... The photo shows the Earth and moon 249,000 miles apart on Sept ...

NASA’s asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is currently in position around the tiny, near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, has transmitted its ...

TUCSON — It's a striking image of Earth, captured by a spacecraft operated by the University of Arizona. The image, taken from about 100,000 miles away, shows swirling clouds above the Pacific ...

A ground-based telescope in the Canary Islands snapped a photo of NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe on Sept. 16, eight days before its asteroid sample lands on Earth.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will make a close flyby of Earth before shooting out toward the asteroid Bennu, and viewers will have the opportunity to wave goodbye to the probe as it passes overhead.

OSIRIS-REx will reach Bennu in 2018, where it will spend a year mapping the surface of the carbon-rich rock. Scientists hope to ultimately land the probe on Bennu with the aim to collect two ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is giving scientists an even better look at the surface of the space rock known as Bennu now that it’s moved even closer to the object. A new photo posted by ...

From a distance of 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km), almost six times the distance between the Earth and Moon, Bennu appears as a pixelated blimp in the photo released this week by the space agency.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a sample of one asteroid — and is now heading for another one.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe spent many months flying through space in order to meet up with its target, a large space rock known as Bennu. The spacecraft’s mission will be carried out ...