Students wore T-shirts and carried stickers with the ... A university-issue lanyard jangled around his neck, just above a bright OSIRIS-REx logo on his shirt. The 18-year-old freshman had enrolled ...

Even though OSIRIS-REx isn't the first asteroid-sample-return mission humanity has completed — JAXA's Hayabusa takes that title — it is the heftiest. Or, in other words, the capsule that ...

OSIRIS-REx will drop off its Bennu sample at Earth on Sept. 24. It will then head to Apophis, another potentially dangerous space rock, for a rendezvous in 2029. Space.com: The challenges didn't ...

It wasn’t until Oct. 20, 2020, nearly two years after OSIRIS-REx arrived at Bennu, that the spacecraft began the capstone maneuver of its mission—descending that last mile to collect its sample.

NASA’s OSIRIS ... they won’t for sure if they collected anything until this weekend, when they spin the vehicle and measure how much material is inside. However, the OSIRIS-REx team feels ...

Even though OSIRIS-REx isn't the first asteroid-sample-return mission humanity has completed — JAXA's Hayabusa takes that title — it is the heftiest. Or, in other words, the capsule that ...

Seven years after it left for the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is returning with a celestial souvenir. On the morning of Sunday, September 24, as it passes by Earth ...