OSIRIS-REx

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft appears to be leaking tiny bits of an asteroid named Bennu, following a successful…

Images captured by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx show the spacecraft’s sample head touching the surface of asteroid Bennu, which…

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…

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…

Recent headlines have contained lots of asteroid-nuking talk. There’s a team of Russian scientists zapping mini…

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently en route to Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid that could contain the basic…

Right now, NASA’s Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx)…

Something just popped into one NASA telescope’s view, and it isn’t a star or a meteor—it’s one of our spacecraft.…

Right now, OSIRIS-REx is one of the busiest spacecrafts in the solar system. OSIRIS-REx, which blasted off in…