NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe captured photos during the release of its return capsule last month, preserving the historic moment for posterity. Those images, which the space agency released on ...

OSIRIS-REx deputy project manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland. "Nevertheless, with over 593 miles per hour (265 meters per second) of velocity change, this will be the ...

The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the grayish, lumpy object and get it really close to the surface so the probe could pluck up some space rock samples with a robotic arm.

Understanding the space within the Bennu space rocks is an important piece of the OSIRIS-Rex mission's puzzle ... with the team preparing to command it to drop the sample 63,000 miles above ...

In a truly remarkable feat of engineering, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx has scooped a sample of soil from the surface of asteroid Bennu, as it hurtles through space some 205 million miles from Earth.

That's because they're not taking names for would-be space travelers. Instead, they're letting folks submit their names to be etched onto a microchip that will be sent aboard the OSIRIS-REx ...

On Oct. 20, NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft will touch asteroid Bennu in an attempt to snag a sample of the surface. NASA announced the target date on Wednesday. The space agency is hoping to bring a ...

The OSIRIS-REx probe has been orbiting Bennu since last December, studying its surface and working out the safest place to descend. The spacecraft will target an area called Nightingale ...