Scientists plan to methodically examine samples from NASA's first asteroid mission, OSIRIS-REx, to figure out how our solar system formed.

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

NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

For the first time in U.S. history, samples from an asteroid in deep space that were captured by NASA fell to Earth and landed in the Utah desert on Sunday, ending a seven-year journey. The Osiris-Rex ...

The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away. NASA revealed on Wednesday that "the building blocks of life on Earth" may have been found in an asteroid sample collected from ...

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

WASHINGTON — NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the ...

Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft is now undergoing environmental testing at the company’s Space Systems facilities near Denver. OSIRIS-REx ...

The agency will give us our first look at the mission's pristine asteroid sample today (Oct. 10) at 11 a.m. ET. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

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 ...

A NASA explorer spacecraft returned to Earth Sunday morning after nearly seven years spent in space on the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect pieces of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu, which scientists say ...