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

NASA reveals the first images of the asteroid material collected during the "picture-perfect" OSIRIS-REx mission led by the University of Arizona.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ancient asteroid back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of ...

Early analysis of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed dust rich in carbon, nitrogen, and organic compounds, all of which are essential components for life ...

It’s official: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snagged 121.6 grams of pristine space rocks when it bopped the asteroid Bennu four years ago, more than double the mission’s official science goal ...

NASA scientists developed tools to pry loose two stuck screws that stopped them from opening a container of asteroid samples from the OSIRIS-REx mission.

OSIRIS-REx dropped the capsule with the asteroid sample from the sky on September 24, 2023, and it landed in the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range.

When the OSIRIS-REx dropped a capsule in the Utah desert last year, it made headlines around the globe for returning NASA's first sample of an asteroid to Earth.

Engineers connected the two mains, causing the parachute deployment actions to occur out of order. To confirm the root cause, NASA will test the system responsible for releasing the parachutes. This ...

NASA says miswiring may have been the culprit for a key parachute not opening during the landing sequence for the OSIRIS-Rex mission.

NASA is struggling to open a capsule containing precious asteroid samples from the OSIRIS-REx mission. Luckily, there is plenty of material to study on the outside of the container.