The Sept. 24 landing of the OSIRIS-REx space capsule was a historic success, but it wasn’t perfect. NASA has confirmed that the capsule’s parachute system did not work properly during its ...

It wouldn't have been limited to just Earth. Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target.

The samples, collected by NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, included 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft successfully delivered the sample canister to 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.

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 ...

By the time September 8 arrived, the launchpad had been fixed, and the OSIRIS-REx mission finally launched on schedule. The spacecraft was now charged with hunting Bennu. The two-year journey to ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Colorado Area ...

After a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its sample of rocks and dirt collected from the primitive asteroid last year in the desert of Utah.

The phosphate was a surprise to the team because the mineral had not been detected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft while at Bennu. While a similar phosphate was found in the asteroid Ryugu sample ...

According to NASA, the upcoming perihelion on September 1 will bring OSIRIS-REx within 46.5 million miles of the sun and well inside Venus's orbit. "It's phenomenal how well our spacecraft ...