(UPDATED AT 10:30 A.M.) UA scientists cheered Monday morning when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu, an important milestone in the UA-led mission. The spacecraft will now ...

It wouldn't have been limited to just Earth. Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target.

The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the grayish, lumpy object and get it really close to the surface so the probe could pluck up some space rock samples with a robotic arm.

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...

By the time September 8 arrived, the launchpad had been fixed, and the OSIRIS-REx mission finally launched on schedule. The spacecraft was now charged with hunting Bennu. The two-year journey to ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Colorado Area ...

After a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its sample of rocks and dirt collected from the primitive asteroid last year in the desert of Utah.

On September 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule to Earth containing pristine carbonaceous regolith collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. These samples were obtained ...

The phosphate was a surprise to the team because the mineral had not been detected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft while at Bennu. While a similar phosphate was found in the asteroid Ryugu sample ...

According to NASA, the upcoming perihelion on September 1 will bring OSIRIS-REx within 46.5 million miles of the sun and well inside Venus's orbit. "It's phenomenal how well our spacecraft ...