OSIRIS-REx is the third spacecraft in history to snatch a sample from an asteroid after Japan's missions Hayabusa 1 and Hayabusa 2 (Hayabusa 2 landed on asteroid Ryugu in 2019).

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

The spacecraft, NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe, briefly touched down on Bennu Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 21) in the space agency's first-ever attempt to collect samples of an asteroid.

OSIRIS-REx's first target, Bennu, is an 85.5 million-ton (77.5 million metric tons) space rock that is on track to swoop within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) of Earth's orbit between ...

On October 20th, NASA confirmed that its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had successfully touched down on an asteroid named Bennu, in an attempt to grab a sample of material from the surface. NASA hopes to ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to scoop up a piece of an asteroid and send it back to Earth is about to rendezvous with its target.. After a two-year journey through the solar system, the spacecraft ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off. This week. the spacecraft ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to drop off a cosmic capsule that may hold clues to the origins of our Solar System By Michelle P. Fulcher · Sep. 18, 2023, 4:37 pm ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.A team ...

The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel.