On Oct. 20, NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft will touch asteroid Bennu in an attempt to snag a sample of the surface. NASA announced the target date on Wednesday.

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx for short, is the first spacecraft to return with an asteroid sample collection in ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will grab a sample of an asteroid called Bennu on Tuesday, and the agency will be webcasting all the excitement. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will make its historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu Tuesday, retrieving a sample from the space rock that will be returned to Earth. OSIRIS-REx will make its ‘touch ...

Nearly two years ago, NASA made history when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly “tagged” 101955 Bennu to collect a regolith sample from the surface of the asteroid.

NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft began its journey back to Earth on Monday — a trip that's expected to take ...

NASA says that the spacecraft's thrusters must change its velocity by 595 miles per hour for OSIRIS-REx's path to intersect Earth and achieve a sample return from the Utah Test and Training Range.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft did its job a little too well on Tuesday, when it tried to scoop up a handful of rocks from an asteroid named Bennu more than 200 million miles from Earth.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this shot of the Earth and moon (left) and the asteroid Bennu (right) on Dec. 19, 2018. At the time, OSIRIS-REx was 71 million miles (114 million kilometers ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft landed on an asteroid to suck up a sample of rock and dust on Tuesday.; New video footage shows the tricky operation, including the six seconds that it touched the ...