The Sept. 24 landing of the OSIRIS-REx space capsule was a historic success, but it wasn’t perfect. NASA has confirmed that the capsule’s parachute system did not work properly during its ...

The spacecraft will orbit the asteroid for more than a year doing science and selecting a site before collecting a pristine sample in a pogo-stick like motion. Safely there: University of Arizona ...

(CNN) — China has launched an ambitious mission to study two intriguing objects in our solar system, the likes of which have never been visited by a spacecraft before. The Tianwen-2 mission ...

Released from the OSIRIS-REx craft, the sample return capsule hurtled down to Earth in a heavy box about the size of a microwave. Aside from the fact that it had been released from a spacecraft ...

NASA does have one mission going to Apophis after the flyby. The main spacecraft from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, rechristened OSIRIS-APEX, will arrive at Apophis shortly after ...

The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is now being integrated with ... The TAG approach was used by both NASA’s OSIRIS-REx and JAXA’s Hayabusa2. China has not released official detailed plans for the ...

This method worked well for NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex and Japan’s Hayabusa2 missions. The second attempt is called "anchor and attach." Here, the spacecraft will use four robotic arms to grip and dril ...