Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped ...

Science has made great progress in telling the story of how Earth was formed more than four and a half billion years ago. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and plate tectonics shape the landscape.

The OSIRIS-REx mission contributed X-band radiometric ... The team plans to build on their Bennu work in the future with the tracking of the Apophis asteroid, which will pass within 20,000 miles ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...

The probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REx, aced its sample-return mission to the asteroid Bennu and is now headed to the space rock Apophis on an extended mission. That new mission calls for ...

which is to survey the asteroid (no samples returning this time), the REx particle in the mission's name was replaced with APEX, a word that stands for Apophis Explorer. The OSIRIS-APEX is ...

(KGUN) — NASA announced earlier this week its OSIRIS-REx team — which recovered samples ... OSIRIS-APEX will travel to asteroid Apophis to continue the study.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected a sample from the asteroid Bennu in 2020, returning its precious cargo to Earth in late 2023. However, technicians at Johnson Space Center had more trouble than ...

After 20 years of planning, building, launching, and waiting, NASA finally accessed the last of the Bennu asteroid sample from the OSIRIS-REx sample retrieval mission, which returned to Earth this ...

OSIRIS-REx was renamed and is now traveling to Apophis, another near-Earth asteroid. The spacecraft's name was changed to OSIRIS-APEX for OSIRIS-APophis EXplorer.