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

OSIRIS-REx is due to make its return to Earth on Sept. 24. ... Space Exploration Doomed Soviet satellite from 1972 will tumble uncontrollably to Earth next week — and it could land almost anywhere.

The OSIRIS-REx team initially expected the probe to scoop up fine-grained sand, like the Japanese space agency encountered on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005. But Bennu’s surface wasn’t like that.

Sept. 24: NASA’s Osiris-rex may send a capsule of asteroid samples to Earth Share full article Regolith dispersing as the Osiris-Rex spacecraft took a sample of the surface of asteroid Bennu in ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ... For the extended mission, the satellite gets a new name, OSIRIS-APEX, and is set to orbit Apophis once it arrives in April of 2029, ...

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has begun its 1.4 billion mile journey back to Earth — and it's carrying historic asteroid samples By Sophie Lewis May 11, 2021 / 9:21 AM EDT / CBS News ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will deliver about 9 ounces (250 grams) of dust and gravel from Bennu to Earth this September, and scientists hope that these fragments will help shed some light on the ...

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 ...

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.

OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta tweeted this photo Aug. 29 of the Atlas 5 shroud that will encapsulate the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during its Sept. 8 launch atop an Atlas 5 rocket ...