NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...

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A spacecraft on an asteroid-sampling mission made by Lockheed Martin Space, OSIRIS-REx, was crowned as the Coolest Thing Made in Colorado for 2023.

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.

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 ...

Back in September 2016, the federal space agency launched the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on a daring mission to snare a batch of rocks from the asteroid Bennu, located about 200 million miles away.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft was launched by Nasa on September 8 2016. It collected a sample – roughly 250 grams – of rocks and dust from the surface of an asteroid, called Bennu, on October 20 2020.

In 2020, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made its most dramatic and difficult maneuver, touching down on the asteroid’s surface and scooping up a sample, a feat achieved while the spacecraft was more ...

Samples were collected on October 20, 2020, and the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft carrying the sample is estimated to land near the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range at 10:55 a.m. EDT ...

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.