The OSIRIS-REx curation team is shown on January 10, attempting to remove one of the fasteners that prohibited the complete opening of the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or TAGSAM ...

NASA revealed its OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample earlier this month as planned, but something was missing. We got preliminary material analysis and images of the cosmic pebbles scattered around the ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in September 2016 and reached asteroid Bennu in December 2018. The spacecraft snagged pieces of a small, near-Earth asteroid in October 2020 and began making its ...

It took OSIRIS-REx years to reach the asteroid Bennu, scoop up a sample, and return it to Earth.While NASA scientists were anxious to get a look at the sample when the spacecraft dropped it off in ...

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.

The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in September 2016 and reached asteroid Bennu in December 2018. The spacecraft snagged pieces of a small, near-Earth asteroid in October 2020 and began making its ...

On Sept. 21 OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fired its thrusters for 30 seconds for a course correction. This is the first time the spacecraft carrying a sample of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has altered ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Learn more about it in this NASA explainer. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

On Sept. 24, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will drop off a piece of space rock at Earth. Ahead of the historic sample landing, Space.com caught up with Dante Lauretta, the mission's chief scientist ...

He’s been the project scientist for OSIRIS-REx since NASA accepted the mission proposal in 2011, and has been involved in the mission’s planning since its conception in 2004. “You can change ...

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.