An all-new, one-hour documentary revealing the incredible challenges, surprises and human triumphs of OSIRIS-REx, the nearly twenty-year space mission to return samples from an ancient asteroid ...

The university-led OSIRIS-REx mission has set an Oct. 20 date for the spacecraft to reach down and grab a sample from the rocky surface of the asteroid Bennu, tens of millions of miles from Earth.

OSIRIS-Rex is scheduled to launch in 2016, rendezvous with Bennu in 2018 and return a sample of the asteroid to Earth in 2023.

Bennu has a 1-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth by the end of the 22nd century. Scientists will be able to better predict an asteroid’s trajectory by studying Bennu’s orbit and the ...

“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life.” This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, was taken on December 2, 2018 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission is currently orbiting the 500-m (1,640-ft.) wide Bennu at just 680 m altitude, breaking a record the spacecraft previously set when it maneuvered ...

The OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at the 1,850-foot-wide asteroid in 2020, scooped up rock and dirt, and then jetted back to Earth. On Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx return capsule parachuted down to a ...

The Bennu asteroid sample, brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023, apparently contained evidence of past saltwater, which could have served as the "broth" for these ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke. Our research team has ...

OSIRIS-REx will settle into a tight orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31. Eventually, the probe will be passing just 0.87 miles (1.4 kilometers) above the surface of Bennu.

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2023. Dworkin is the mission’s ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, was taken on December 2, 2018 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. Organic samples returned from Bennu contain the building blocks of life on ...