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 ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

NASA expected Asteroid Bennu to behave like a solid body. Instead, OSIRIS-REx found a surface far more fragile and ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...

Ingredients essential to kick-start life have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission was led by researchers at the University of Arizona and Arizona ...

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission brought home about a half-cup of crushed rocks and dirt from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Credit: NASA Goddard / University of Arizona illustration In one study, a ...

On Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swung past Earth to drop off precious cargo: 121.6 g of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. Born from the rocky detritus of an ...

Reba McEntire corrected “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie live on the air after the journalist questioned her about her fiancé, Rex Linn. The country music singer appeared on Monday’s episode of the ...

Check out the 'Life in Space' Dev Diary Video for The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a third-person action RPG set in The Expanse universe developed by Owlcat Games. Players can join former NASA Astronaut ...

Explore how NASA's OSIRIS-Rex may change our understanding of our place in the universe. What can a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid tell us about life on Earth? NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission set out to ...

NASA's plans to fly a spaceship alongside a potentially hazardous asteroid in 2029 will continue — for the next year, at least. After threats of mission cancellation, the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...