How OSIRIS-REx's capsule could hold keys to 'building blocks of life' on Earth. The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away.

OSIRIS-REx is an acronym for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, which was a seven-year mission. A timeline of significant events: Sept. 8, 2016 ...

OSIRIS-REx, one of NASA’s robotic spacecraft, is set to drops off a package in the American desert Sunday grabbed from one of the rare asteroids made of the same thing Earth is ...

OSIRIS-REx's asteroid-sample return capsule will land in Utah on Sept. 24 at around 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT). Here's the latest.

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the ... Satellite images reveal the reality of Saudi Arabia's $2 trillion megacity in the desert.

Scientists have discovered an abundance of material after opening the OSIRIS-REx canister containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu, which could offer key insights into the origins of ...

The OSIRIS-REx team initially expected the probe to scoop up fine-grained sand, like the Japanese space agency encountered on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005. But Bennu’s surface wasn’t like that.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe put itself on course toward Earth with a thruster firing on Sept. 10, two weeks before its highly anticipated asteroid-sample delivery. Skip to main content.

Seven years ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched to collect asteroid samples from the near-Earth object Bennu. Today, the samples made landfall on Earth, closing a long-awaited chapter ...

OSIRIS-REx’s next target, Apophis, also makes regular close approaches to Earth — but NASA has confirmed that this asteroid won’t be striking the planet on any of its next three approaches ...

OSIRIS-REx's first target, Bennu, is an 85.5 million-ton (77.5 million metric tons) space rock that is on track to swoop within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) of Earth's orbit between ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission released its capsule containing a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu early this morning, and it landed in the Utah desert. Skip to main content Menu ...