In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid. Now, the historic mission is coming to an end seven years later. The sample capsule from OSIRIS-REx ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Seven years and 4 billion miles after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a precious sample of one near-Earth asteroid — and is now ...

On Friday, January 19, NASA announced the full disassembly of the probe head from the OSIRIS-REx mission ... Once done, they'll prepare the glove box with sample trays and position the material ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first arrived at the large space rock known as Bennu late last year, and it’s spent the first few months of 2019 observing its new space companion and teaching ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.