Members of the OSIRIS-REx science team will be honored during Saturday’s football game at Arizona Stadium, a little over a month after they scored a spectacular touchdown of their own.

Members of the OSIRIS-REx science team will be honored during Saturday’s football game at Arizona Stadium.

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 ...

Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, discusses his next final frontier.

OSIRIS-REx collected rock and dust specimens from Bennu’s rugged exterior with a new type of sampling device that used compressed gas to loosen particles on the asteroid’s surface. In 2021, the ...

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.

In 2016, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft traveled to an asteroid called Bennu, collected 250 grams of rocks and dust, and then traveled 1.2 billion miles to return the samples to Earth. In ...

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.

During a webcast today (Oct. 10), NASA will unveil the asteroid sample hauled to Earth by its OSIRIS-REx mission last month.

Experts say the rocks and dust the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft plucked from an asteroid named Bennu will fuel scientific research for generations.

Seven years ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched to collect asteroid samples from the near-Earth object Bennu. Today, the samples made landfall on Earth, closing a long-awaited chapter ...