The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.

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.

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.

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

OSIRIS-REx managed to bring back about 121 grams (4.3 ounces) . Five grams of asteroid bits were enough to yield some exciting results, though, which foreshadows what 121 grams of asteroid bits ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe performed its Touch-And-Go maneuver on the space rock Bennu days ago. The new video shows the probe slapping the surface of the asteroid and kicking up material ...

The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for safeguarding pristine samples of an asteroid delivered to Earth. When two fasteners got stuck on the canister ...

An external view of the OSIRIS-REx sample-collector hardware shows material from the carbon-rich asteroid scattered across the right side. NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold You talk about the ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

University of Arizona scientists and supporters cheered Monday morning as word came from mission control that the OSIRIS-REx mission had finally reached the asteroid Bennu. This critical — and ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

Asteroids, often overlooked, hold vital clues about our solar system's formation and potential future. Missions like ...