An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent asteroid target Bennu.

As the destination for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid retrieval mission, additional X-band radiometric and optical navigation tracking data added even more trajectory precision.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission was planned decades ago. In 2016, a spacecraft launched. In 2018, it arrived at Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Sears Tower is tall.

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid that acts like a comet.

Tom “The Magic Man” Tourville, a man who truly lived up to his name, passed away surrounded by loved ones on Friday, March 7, 2025, at the age of 84.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu when it was 207 million miles away from Earth and brought back rock and dust samples.. Several countries have developed the ...

OTES was on the Osiris Rex mission which analyzed the far away asteroid Bennu and brought samples back to Earth. Other engineering missions included helping his grandchildren design high school ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...

Its mission seeks answers to the question of how the building blocks of life were delivered to the early Earth through analysis of samples from the 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

WATCH: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returns an asteroid soil sample to Earth. By Bella Isaacs-Thomas. Oct 21. WATCH: NASA releases first images from OSIRIS-REx touchdown on asteroid.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...