At the Natural History Museum in London, Professor Sara Russell has been comparing the isotopic "fingerprint" of Earth's water with water found in the asteroid Bennu, captured and brought back by the ...

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 shot within 11,000 miles of Earth in its flyby. Once 105,000 miles away, it captured images of the receding Earth, with the Pacific Ocean in view.

This “super-resolution” view of the asteroid Bennu was created using eight images obtained by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Oct. 29 from about 205 miles away. The spacecraft is to land on ...

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project facility in Manciano, Italy captured NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft deployed a capsule carrying bits of asteroid Bennu for a landing ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected Dec. 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 kilometers). The image was obtained at a ...

Scientists finally began opening the rock sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx captured a treasure trove of material from the solar system’s earliest days.

How OSIRIS-REx's capsule could hold keys to 'building blocks of life' on Earth The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away.

Scientists said they got more material than expected from the Osiris-Rex mission during its seven-year journey to the asteroid Bennu.

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

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe captured photos during the release of its return capsule last month, preserving the historic moment for posterity. Those images, which the space agency released on ...