Two months ago, NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe dropped home samples of asteroid Bennu and is now headed on a bonus mission with leftover fuel to yet another space rock. During this extended voyage, the ...

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx for short, is the first spacecraft to return with an asteroid sample collection in ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

NASA will power up OSIRIS-REx in the early morning on Sept. 24 and ensure the probe's trajectory and orientation are aligned to jettison the mission's sample return capsule.

Scientists said they got more material than expected from the Osiris-Rex mission during its seven-year journey to the asteroid Bennu. By Kenneth Chang A first glimpse of the jackpot from a seven ...

OSIRIS-REx’s next target, Apophis, also makes regular close approaches to Earth — but NASA has confirmed that this asteroid won’t be striking the planet on any of its next three approaches ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission capsule contains an 8.8-ounce asteroid sample that could help scientists worldwide learn more about the solar system's origins.

OSIRIS-REx was carried into space atop an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Sept. 22, 2017: Flyby around the Earth. Dec. 3, 2018: OSIRIS-REx arrives at asteroid Bennu.

On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth and dropped a sample of asteroid Bennu to Utah's West Desert. The mission went "absolutely perfectly," and NASA scientists hope the sample will ...

First conceived of by OSIRIS REx mission leader Dr. Dante Lauretta, a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona, in 2004, NASA launched the probe in 2016.