OSIRIS-REx then immediately fired up its thrusters to back away from Bennu. The spacecraft’s sampling head touched Bennu’s surface for approximately 6 seconds before retreating.

On the day of the mission, Tuesday, October 20, from 1o:20 a.m. PT, NASA TV will show a live animation of OSIRIS-REx approaching the asteroid, and then from 2 p.m. PT there will be a live ...

The minimum required for mission success was 60 grams, or 2.12 ounces. If the amount actually collected is much less than that, OSIRIS-REx has enough nitrogen gas to make two more attempts.

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

The OSIRIS-REx mission used some pretty fascinating tech to autonomously acquire rocks and dust from an asteroid called Bennu. Asteroids can act as time capsules, and Bennu reflects what was ...

The NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has spent nearly half a decade in space and has finally departed asteroid Bennu and is on its way back to Earth. NASA has announced that on Monday, May 10 at 4:23 PM ...

This week, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft conducted a final rehearsed of all of the maneuvers it will need to touchdown on the asteroid Bennu and collect a sample from it in the fall.

The spacecraft launched in 2016. It has traveled about 3.86 billion miles, according to NASA. OSIRIS-REx will next travel to the asteroid Apophis as part of the extended OSIRIS-APEX mission.

On Sept. 24, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will come hurtling back through Earth's atmosphere after a years-long journey to Bennu, a "potentially hazardous asteroid" with a 1 in 2700 chance of ...

In just under a year, on Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx sample collector — a basket full of asteroid dust and rocks — will return to Earth's surface.