On Oct. 20, 2020, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission successfully collected a sample from asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-Rex team has made two big decisions since the touch-and-go event ...

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's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

“OSIRIS-REx wasn’t designed for this new mission, but Apophis will have a really close flyby of Earth on that day at just 30,000 km in altitude. People in some parts of the world will be able to see ...

OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, gathered 8.8 ounces of material from the surface of asteroid Bennu. That's the most ever "grabbed" by a spacecraft.

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 ...

“It’s well preserved,” Connolly said. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is not the first mission to bring back an asteroid sample. Japan’s JAXA Hayabusa mission brought back specks from asteroid Itokawa, and the JAXA ...

It has been a moment years in the making, as the OSIRIS-REx space probe, which was launched in 2016 from Florida, is set to land on Earth in September with a sample from the asteroid Bennu.

The OSIRIS-REx mission was an audacious attempt to land on an asteroid, capture a sample and bring it back to Earth. In 2004, Dante Lauretta, Professor of Planetary Science at the University of ...

Thanks to that safe landing, OSIRIS-REx is now returning from its mission with a 2-ounce sample (60 grams) of Bennu's surface that could contain extraterrestrial precursors to life on our planet.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will see a sample of an asteroid return to Earth on Sept. 24. Here's how the mission's head scientist feels about the chances of success.

NASA launched OSIRIS-REx on Sept. 8, 2016, beginning the seven-year mission The spacecraft returned its sample on Sept. 24, 2023, which scientists collected in about an hour ...