Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

A new book tells the story of the mastermind who directed NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx mission Diane Tedeschi Initially, your entire group was responsible for selecting the landing site. Ultimately, you ...

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 ...

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 ...

The OSIRIS-REx capsule return capsule and its main parachute after landing in the Utah desert Sept. 24. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber WASHINGTON — The drogue parachute on the OSIRIS-REx sample ...

NASA has called the OSIRIS-Rex landing a historic success, the first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth.

Bennu is currently the smallest object ever orbited by a spacecraft, and OSIRIS-REx achieved the tightest orbit around a celestial body in human history during its lengthy mission.

The OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule, its outer skin charred by the heat of re-entry, was hauled from the landing site to a nearby air-filtered clean room for initial disassembly.

NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a sample of one asteroid — and is now heading for another one.