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 ...

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 ...

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.

Looking at OSIRIS-REx's target asteroid Bennu through telescopes, astronomers thought that it would be rather similar to other known space rocks. They were in for a surprise.

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.

Bennu, the asteroid from which OSIRIS-REx collected its sample, is thought to be made up of material that is around 4.5 billion years old, making it a potential time capsule from the earliest ...

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.