In October 2020, Osiris-Rex pogo-sticked off the asteroid using its sampling tool, which looks like an automobile air filter at the end of a robotic arm, to pick up the rock samples.

OSIRIS-REx released the SRC about 63,000 miles from Earth at about 6:42 a.m. EDT. The capsule plummeted to Earth and landed by parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range.

The asteroid Bennu could one day collide with Earth – and is a time capsule from the Solar System's early days. Nasa's Osiris-Rex mission has captured it in stunning detail.

Dive into the sands of ancient Egypt and uncover the captivating story of Osiris, the god-king destined to die not once, but twice! We'll piece together the scattered fragments of his life ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a capsule containing several ounces of rocky, dusty material it collected from the asteroid Bennu on Sunday, successfully closing out the agency’s ...

OSIRIS-REx recovered an estimated 250 grams of Bennu material, more than four times the 60 grams the mission had targeted. And as the science team began dissembling the sample return capsule at ...

The best science pictures of 2020. Asteroids, microbes, and, of course, coronavirus: These photographs capture a year in which science has been championed—and challenged—in unprecedented ways.

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.

The OSIRIS-REx team plans to broadcast the recovery live on their website, NASA.gov, and have been putting their broadcast equipment to the test. On August 30th, ...