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

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the sample will be preserved for future generations of humanity, the best-case ...

OSIRIS-REx is short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer. It launched in September 2016 for the seven-year mission to Bennu and back.

Cameras aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snapped portraits of Jupiter and its moons as the University of Arizona-led team prepared to look for more elusive targets. On Feb. 9, the OSIRIS-REx ...

Paleontology may be entering another great era of discovery: characterized by serial misidentification in decades past.

Zooming in on Bennu samples A top-down view of one of the containers holding rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu, with hardware scale marked in centimeters. This image was captured using manual ...