NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Learn how nanoscale scans of Bennu reveal a diverse chemical landscape shaped by ancient water, and reshaping our ...

Asteroid With the Force of “22 Atomic Bombs” Being Tracked by Scientists Ahead of Key Date ...

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. When you purchase ...

A new study shows that minerals inside asteroid Bennu are organised into three clearly different chemical groupings. These ...

NASA’s study of Bennu reveals why its rocky surface behaves like sand. The answer lies in cracks deep inside its boulders.

Bennu looked far different up close than scientists expected, and that mismatch led to a deeper investigation into how asteroid surfaces behave. What researchers found in returned samples helped ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

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 two-hour launch window opens Thursday at 7:05 p.m. for the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission aboard a United Launch Alliance ...

Just as the University of Arizona-led spacecraft OSIRIS-REx prepares to begin orbiting the asteroid Bennu, it turns out the consequences of President Trump’s continued government shutdown over a ...

This artist's illustration shows NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooming past Earth on Sept. 22, 2017 — a maneuver designed to boost the probe’s speed and refine its course toward the asteroid Bennu.