TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — NASA announced earlier this week its OSIRIS-REx team — which recovered samples from the ancient asteroid Bennu — has won the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy. The seven-year ...

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 ...

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on the asteroid Bennu after more than two years of flight and is sending home some incredible travel photographs. This week, “super resolution” images of the ...

NASA returned its first sample of an asteroid to Earth last year, landing a sample collected from asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert in September. Researchers were able to extract 70 grams of material ...

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

The once inaccessible sample container has been fully opened, and NASA has released the numbers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

On Tuesday, Aug. 11 at 11:30 a.m. Arizona time, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will begin its final sample retrieval rehearsal on the asteroid Bennu, currently some 170 million miles from Earth. This ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA finally has counted up all the asteroid samples returned by a spacecraft last fall — and it’s double the rubble return goal. Officials reported Thursday that the Osiris-Rex ...