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

REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, Collecting asteroid samples China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon from 590,000 kilometers awa ...

OSIRIS-REx snapped photos of the Earth and moon during its “slingshot” around our planet and gave researchers another test run of what might happen when the spacecraft reaches the asteroid ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission conducted unprecedented centimeter-scale mapping of Bennu, surpassing precision levels achieved for any other planetary body and setting three Guinness World Records for: ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016 to collect a sample from Bennu. It was successful, and this past fall, the spacecraft safely delivered its asteroid sample to scientists waiting on Earth.

What is OSIRIS-REx? Where is Bennu, and why is it so important? OSIRIS-REx, launched in 2016, is the first American mission to bring back samples of an asteroid.

NASA revealed Wednesday the contents of the OSIRIS-REx capsule containing the first asteroid sample collected in space.

NASA has released a new video capturing the moment when its OSIRIS-REx probe released a canister containing materials from asteroid Bennu.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft traveled nearly 4 billion miles in 6 years to bring a piece of an ancient asteroid to earth for study.

Experts say the rocks and dust the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft plucked from an asteroid named Bennu will fuel scientific research for generations.