OSIRIS-REx is due to make its return to Earth on Sept. 24. Here's everything you need to know about the mission and what it may reveal about the beginning — and the potential end — of life on Earth.

It's been seven years since the launch of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect and return samples of asteroid Bennu, and the long wait for the spacecraft's homecoming is nearly over. OSIRIS-REx, short ...

On Oct. 20, 2020, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission successfully collected a sample from asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-Rex team has made two big decisions since the touch-and-go event.

On the morning of Sept. 22, OSIRIS-REx — NASA’s asteroid-hunting spacecraft —passed under the Earth at just 10,711 miles over Antarctica. The craft continued northward, as it successfully completed ...

After launching the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission in September 2016, NASA set out to become the first space agency to visit ...

A long-hidden Vex secret and the truth behind the Darkness and the Hive have been Osiris' obsession for longer than most have been alive, and he's finally made a breakthrough. A breakthrough that ...

Each second of the capsule's descent has been calculated in anticipation for NASA's first asteroid sample return mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...