NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

HOUSTON—Osiris-Rex, the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission, embarked late Sept. 8 on a seven-year, round trip encounter with the Near Earth Object Bennu.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

HOUSTON—Two solar-powered NASA planetary mission spacecraft have achieved recent deep-space milestones: Juno while orbiting Jupiter and Osiris-Rex while outbound on its seven-year sample return ...

The mission is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 4:05 p.m. Tucson time Thursday, Sept. 8. Elizabeth Eaton is a NASA Space Grant undergraduate research scholar.