On Sept. 24, 2023, OSIRIS-REx safely dropped off its collected pieces of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Soon, scientific study will begin.

Dec. 3, 2018: OSIRIS-REx arrives at asteroid Bennu. Dec. 31, 2019: OSIRIS-REx begins orbiting Bennu. Oct. 20, 2020: Sample successfully collected from Bennu. April 7, 2021: Final flyover of Bennu.

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.

By October 2020, the OSIRIS-REx had collected pieces of Bennu and started its three-year journey back to Earth. OSIRIS-REx glided by Earth on Sunday to drop off a sample capsule filled with pieces ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center TikTok goes dark for some users ahead of ban Oklahoma high school ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...

OSIRIS-REx launched in 2016, flew by earth in 2017 and arrived on Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018. It began its journey back to Earth more than two years ago.

NASA will preserve asteroid samples from OSIRIS-Rex for centuries to come so that scientists not even born yet can study them By Katie Hawkinson and Maiya Focht ...

OSIRIS-REx put itself on course for Earth with a crucial thruster firing on Sunday (Sept. 10). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has been sent off to study the asteroid Apophis – also known as the “God of Chaos”- to “take advantage of the asteroid’s 2029 flyby of Earth… ...