On Dec. 3, after traveling billions of kilometers from Earth, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached its target, Bennu, and kicked off a nearly two-year, up-close investigation of the asteroid. It will ...

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the ...

OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu contained amino acids, nucleobases, sugars and water-rich minerals. The video explains ...

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

It’s official: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snagged 121.6 grams of pristine space rocks when it bopped the asteroid Bennu four years ago, more than double the mission’s official science goal, the ...

Documenting NASA's incredible twenty-year mission to land a spacecraft on an asteroid. An all-new, one-hour documentary revealing the incredible challenges, surprises and human triumphs of OSIRIS-REx, ...

EarthSky’s Will Triggs explains the new analysis of material from the asteroid Bennu in this short video. New analysis of samples from asteroid Bennu Scientists have completed a new detailed analysis ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few ...

Announced on Friday, the images are the latest milestone in an ambitious attempt to study the asteroid in detail and, hopefully, to bring back samples from its surface. The five images were captured ...

Magnesium-sodium phosphate found in NASA's OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample suggests Bennu, seen above, could have originated from an ancient, primitive ocean world. Credit: NASA What the team found was ...

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 ...

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 ...