New images captured by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft after a close flyby April 7 show the aftermath of when it briefly touched down on the asteroid Bennu in October and collected 2 ounces of material ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched and collected a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu—without a human at the controls. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by ...

Today's TAG maneuver is the first time NASA has attempted to collect material from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REx is NASA's third robotic sample return mission and Lockheed Martin has built and operated ...

Ten minutes later, OSIRIS-REx will transmit information from its third and final "matchpoint" burn that it will set it up for soft contact on the surface at 6:12 p.m. EDT (2312 GMT).

Nasa’s audacious mission to grab a piece of an asteroid has been successful, the space agency said on Wednesday morning, as data show its Osiris-Rex spacecraft has managed to “tag” the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft crushed rocks and sent rubble flying as it briefly touched an asteroid, a strong indication that samples were collected for return to Earth, officials said Wednesday.

Captured on Oct. 20, during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of 82 images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft ...

America's Osiris-Rex spacecraft has completed its audacious tag-and-go manoeuvre designed to grab surface rock from an asteroid. Radio signals from 330 million km away confirm the probe made ...

Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission's Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager's field of view as the NASA spacecraft ...