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.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission taught astronomers how little they know about space rocks. ... it looked exactly like what everyone's intuition said a rubble pile should look like," Kevin Walsh, ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

NASA's pioneering OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully returned from its journey to the asteroid Bennu. ... But quickly once we got to Bennu, we were really surprised by what it looked like, ...

The public got its first look at samples NASA took from asteroid Bennu. ... OSIRIS-REx began its journey of a billion miles to and from Bennu in 2016. ... More Like This.

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.

NASA held a briefing to reveal the rocks returned by the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. The asteroid material was delivered to Earth in late September in a space capsule that landed in Utah.

The powdery material that NASA officials unveiled on Wednesday looked like asphalt or charcoal, ... OSIRIS-REx recovered an estimated 250 grams of Bennu material, ...

OSIRIS-REx will deliver its asteroid sample to Earth this Sunday morning. The mission is returning samples of the asteroid Bennu via a sample capsule that it will drop from its in-space flightpath.