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

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

But then the team split over which landing site offered the best scientific return ... How did you feel when the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample container was finally opened at Johnson Space Center in ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the ...

OSIRIS-REx has "brought something extraordinary: the largest asteroid sample ever received on Earth," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on NASA TV.

Editor's Note, October 23: Leaders of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission have confirmed that the spacecraft collected a significant amount of material from the asteroid Bennu during its October 20 ...

A view of the OSIRIS-REx sample canister, containing material from asteroid Bennu, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023. While ...

And indeed, in a separate analysis of the Bennu sample, other colleagues on the OSIRIS-REx mission identified a wide variety of organic compounds present on the carbon- and nitrogen-rich asteroid.

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for safeguarding pristine samples of an asteroid delivered to Earth. When two fasteners got stuck on the canister ...