The first asteroid sample collected in space by NASA arrived on Earth Sunday, Sept. 24, and there are multiple events leading up to its landing. NASA’s live coverage of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, ...

OSIRIS-REx put itself on course for Earth with a crucial thruster firing on Sunday (Sept. 10). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an asteroid ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023. While ...