Articles about OSIRIS-REx

Engineer inspects OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule after touchdown in Utah

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

OSIRIS-REx probe touches down to grab bits of an asteroid, with assist from Aerojet

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe reached the climax of its seven-year round trip to deep space today and briefly touched down on… 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

That was fast: OSIRIS-REx probe detects water on asteroid Bennu during approach

Just one week after the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s official arrival at the asteroid Bennu, the mission’s scientists have announced a significant… Read More

OSIRIS-REx probe reaches asteroid Bennu for close-up survey and sample return

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx today made its official rendezvous with a promising and potentially perilous asteroid named Bennu, after two years of… 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

NASA shows off a drive-by snapshot of Earth from OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe

During last week’s flyby, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured a stunning portrait of Earth’s disk, spanning the Pacific from Australia to… Read More

OSIRIS-REx probe buzzes Earth on its way to an asteroid – and earthlings wave back

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took pictures — and had its picture taken — as it zoomed past Earth today on its… Read More

Are asteroids leaving the spotlight? No way, say Asteroid Day activists

NASA may be closing down its grand plan to study a piece of an asteroid up close, but the researchers… Read More

NASA launches OSIRIS-REx probe on a mission to bring back bits of an asteroid

NASA launched its OSIRIS-REx probe today on America’s first mission to snag samples from a near-Earth asteroid and bring them back to Earth – and… Read More

Planetary Resources vs. OSIRIS-REx: Watch asteroid hunters play Xtronaut game

Watching a couple of guys play a board game on streaming video may not sound exciting – unless those two guys… Read More