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

Dante Lauretta, the chief scientist of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, talks about unexpected challenges of NASA's first asteroid sampling attempt in an exclusive interview.

The OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission delivered pieces of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, before moving on to study asteroid Apophis in 2029.

On September 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the Utah desert, delivering an asteroid sample that NASA has spent nearly 20 years trying to retrieve. Two weeks after touchdown, NASA ...

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 ...

As NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descended toward asteroid Bennu to grab a sample of its surface materials, mission principal investigator Lauretta and his team knew the process would leave a ...

OSIRIS-REx, one of NASA’s robotic spacecraft, is set to drops off a package in the American desert Sunday grabbed from one of the rare asteroids made of the same thing Earth is Skip to Article ...

Scientists have discovered an abundance of material after opening the OSIRIS-REx canister containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu, which could offer key insights into the origins of ...

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.

It looked like a mud flat after the water evaporates, when it gets all fractured and shrinks up. So did we get it wrong at the asteroid? ... Your book is about OSIRIS-REx, ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. ... Whenever I Make my Grandma's Potatoes Like This, Everyone Asks for More.