A NASA explorer spacecraft returned to Earth Sunday morning after nearly seven years spent in space on the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect pieces of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu, which scientists say ...

Nasa is expected to break new ground in space research on Sunday with its Osiris-Rex mission. The US space agency will bring home the largest asteroid sample ever returned to Earth, but what is the ...

A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...

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.

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

In his book, the principal investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission describes the frantic morning of final checks before the launch. The following is an excerpt from The Asteroid Hunter: A ...

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) has a long-standing history of working closely with NASA, including the Gensis and Stardust sample return missions in the early 2000's. The ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an asteroid ...

A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size of a microwave oven, landed safely on Sunday morning to a crowd of cheering ...