Upon a successful return to Earth next year, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will be the first American mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid. But NASA announced last week that the story won’t end ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

Daniel Stolte of the UA Communications team reports that the UA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which will send a space probe to an asteroid for a few years before returning to Earth, is a go: OSIRIS-REx, the ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the ...

The NASA mission – designed, built and flown by Lockheed Martin (LMT) – aims to uncover new learnings about the building blocks of life in our solar system UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Utah, Sept. 24 ...

When NASA’s only major concerns for the OSIRIS-REx launch on Thursday are some fluffy white clouds, you know the mission is in good shape. The mission, led by the University of Arizona’s Lunar and ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

The Arizona Daily Star has been counting down to the launch of the OSIRIS-REx mission for the past 10 days, and now it’s here. This University of Arizona-led mission aims to collect a sample of an ...

Life on Earth, as we know it, needs a few things to get off the ground. It needs an abundance of liquid water, a Goldilocks temperature that won't make said water freeze or boil, and a collection of a ...

Science has made great progress in telling the story of how Earth was formed more than four and a half billion years ago. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and plate tectonics shape the landscape. But ...