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

The UA is headed back out to space with a new NASA mission in roughly three weeks. Asteroid hunter OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for liftoff on Thursday, Sept. 8. The pretty damn cool science mission, led ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Upon a successful return to Earth next year, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will be the first American mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid. But NASA announced last week that the story won’t end ...

A UA-led telescope atop of Mount Graham has captured the first glimpse of an asteroid-bound spacecraft since its launch in September 2016. The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, an international ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...

TL;DR: NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe delivered samples from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Researchers have since analyzed these samples to study their contents. When NASA announced it had collected samples ...

UA scientists leading a seven-year NASA mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth celebrated a “happy week” for the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft by releasing the first images taken by its camera. At ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected. "On ...

Ingredients essential to kick-start life have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission was led by researchers at the University of Arizona and Arizona ...

LONDON (APTN/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Scientists have discovered particles older than our solar system in a sample from the asteroid Bennu, brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft. The ...