NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe captured photos during the release of its return capsule last month, preserving the historic moment for posterity. Those images, which the space agency released on ...

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

NASA scientists opening the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return lid at the Johnson Space Center. Credit: Robert Markowitz / NASA Inside Building 31 at Johnson Space Center, NASA scientists have opened ...

NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston has revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler head. On Jan. 10 ...

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Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...

LONDON (APTN/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Scientists have discovered particles older than our solar system in a sample from the asteroid Bennu, brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft. The ...

NASA revealed its OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample earlier this month as planned, but something was missing. We got preliminary material analysis and images of the cosmic pebbles scattered around the top of ...