Mission engineers were confident NASA's OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification—Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the sun on Jan ...

The spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx had an impromptu close encounter with the Sun as it follows a newly crafted route to a second asteroid, using one of its solar arrays for shade.

OSIRIS-APEX emerged "unscathed" from its closest-ever brush past our sun on Jan. 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). OSIRIS-APEX is in an elliptical orbit around our sun, which puts it at ...

The probe "performed as predicted" during the first of seven close approaches to the sun on its way to Apophis, NASA said. OSIRIS-APEX is back online. Since last December, the NASA space probe had ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

The second panel is positioned to face the sun in order to power the OSIRIS-APEX probe, as it's now called due to the secondary mission. Computer simulations show holding the spacecraft in such a ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft recently undertook a daring journey, getting closer to the sun than ever before. This maneuver, completed on January 2, saw the spacecraft approach within 25 million ...

For hundreds of millions of years, a top-shaped rubble pile called Bennu has orbited the sun in relative isolation ... scientists used data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to make a precise ...