OSIRIS-REx will now travel to and study Apophis, another near-Earth asteroid, for 18 months. The spacecraft's name will change to OSIRIS-APEX for OSIRIS-APophis EXplorer.

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.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.A team ...

Released from the OSIRIS-REx mothership four hours earlier, the 110-pound 31-inch-wide sample return capsule, loaded with a half-pound of rocks and soil collected in 2020 from an asteroid known as ...

OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touches down in western Utah (animation). (Image credit: NASA) Over the next five minutes, the pod's main chute will slow its descent to approximately 11 miles-per ...

Looking at OSIRIS-REx's target asteroid Bennu through telescopes, astronomers thought that it would be rather similar to other known space rocks. They were in for a surprise.

OSIRIS-REx is renamed OSIRIS-APEX and sent to Apophis, a 1,100-foot-wide asteroid expected to pass Earth at a distance of 20,000 miles in 2029. Jan. 19, 2024 : TAGSAM is opened and Bennu samples ...

OSIRIS-REx will be visible above Salt Lake City at 6:41 a.m. ET and will release its capsule 63,000 miles above Earth about a minute later. In this photo provided by NASA, ...

OSIRIS-REx glided by Earth on Sunday to drop off a sample capsule filled with pieces of the Bennu asteroid. As the capsule made its brief descent through Earth's atmosphere, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off. This week. the spacecraft ...

OSIRIS-REx: Countdown to Launch is a half-hour AZPM original documentary providing an in-depth look at the science and scientists behind the asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx.

Bennu’s reaction to OSIRIS-REx’s touchdown also had scientists puzzled. After briefly interacting with the asteroid, the spacecraft left a 26-foot (8-meter) wide crater.