OSIRIS-REx was one of NASA’s most impressive successes in years. In 2020, it successfully touched down on a near-Earth ...

The OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission delivered pieces of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, ... OSIRIS-REx made a flyby of our home planet, on Sept. 22, 2017, ...

These asteroids are thought to be remnants from the formation of the outer planets. OSIRIS-REx has more asteroid adventures ahead of it as well. After delivering its cargo, ...

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.

Since bidding Bennu farewell in May 2021, OSIRIS-REx has been on a return trip to Earth, circling the sun twice so it can fly by our planet at the right time to drop off the asteroid sample.

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

He’s been the project scientist for OSIRIS-REx since NASA accepted the mission proposal in 2011, and has been involved in the mission’s planning since its conception in 2004. “You can change ...

OSIRIS-REx—the first U.S. mission to attempt a sample return from a space rock—has successfully sent ... (National Geographic, 2019) and Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet (National Geographic ...

"The OSIRIS-REx sample is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever delivered to Earth and will help scientists investigate the origins of life on our own planet for generations to come," NASA ...

New ultraprecise measurements show that the asteroid Bennu has a higher chance than thought of impacting our planet sometime in the next 300 years, NASA says.