NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert.

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

Information gathered by OSIRIS-REx may help in development of future technologies to deflect asteroids that threaten to collide with Earth.

At the Natural History Museum in London, Professor Sara Russell has been comparing the isotopic "fingerprint" of Earth's water with water found in the asteroid Bennu, captured and brought back by the ...

After a seven-year trip, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample capsule containing rocks captured from the asteroid Bennu, and now NASA has shared the first results of its tests on the samples.

Scientists said they got more material than expected from the Osiris-Rex mission during its seven-year journey to the asteroid Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx is due to make its return to Earth on Sept. 24. Here's everything you need to know about the mission and what it may reveal about the beginning — and the potential end — of life on ...

An all-new, one-hour documentary revealing the incredible challenges, surprises and human triumphs of OSIRIS-REx, the nearly twenty-year space mission to return samples from an ancient asteroid ...

After roaming space for seven years, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped NASA's first asteroid sample into the Utah desert on Sunday.

On Sept. 24, NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft will try to complete its seven-year journey by dropping an asteroid sample of Bennu to Earth.

A new OSIRIS-REx Curation Laboratory in Houston awaits delivery of the asteroid samples, which will first be inspected at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert.