NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe delivers sample of asteroid — and moves on to next target Seven years and 4 billion miles after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a… Read More
Surprise! NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe catches asteroid spewing bits into space NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has spotted something that hasn’t been seen up close on an asteroid before: plumes of particles erupting… Read More
OSIRIS-REx probe goes into close orbit around asteroid Bennu and sets a record NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft today maneuvered into an orbit that takes it within 4,000 feet of the surface of Bennu, a… Read More
See a diamond-shaped asteroid from all sides, courtesy of OSIRIS-REx mission Two years after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu and sending back… Read More
NASA’s New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spot their deep-space targets The next few months are due to bring two amazing interplanetary encounters: a rendezvous with an asteroid and a flyby… Read More
