They're the first organic molecules recovered from an asteroid in space. The Hayabusa2 mission visited asteroid…
The 1,640-foot-wide object could collide with Earth in 161 years, but the odds remain exceptionally low.
OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft tasked with collecting rocks and dust from a nearby asteroid named Bennu, is coming bac…
Save
Yesterday, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passed by the asteroid Bennu for the last time, ending its…
Update: OSIRIS-REx made contact with the surface on schedule, executed the sample-collection procedure, and fired…
To prepare for OSIRIS-REx’s pending touchdown onto the surface of Bennu, NASA used the spacecraft to photograph…
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft set out on September 8, 2016 to study the asteroid Bennu. But last fall, one of its…
The OSIRIS-REx team has decided on a location to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu. It’s a 460-foot-wide crate…
Images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft are helping scientists to understand why small particles are…
NASA’s asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is currently in position around the tiny, near-Earth asteroid…
Save
NASA scientists have released a boatload of data from OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Bennu. There…
The asteroid-orbiting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has released some of its most detailed images yet of its target, the…
The new year has brought important milestones for two space missions—but only one of them deals in the very survival…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has already detected evidence of water on its target, the asteroid Bennu, just a week…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission won’t just take pretty pictures of the asteroid Bennu—it will also help scientists learn…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx arrived today at its target asteroid, Bennu, an important step on its mission to collect a sample…
More than two years after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has beamed back what the space agency is calling…
Save