The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert.

Osiris-Rex launched in 2016, embarking on a roundabout series of fuel-efficient loops before arriving at Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018. Image. The Osiris-Rex Curation Lab, where samples will be processed ...

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has proposed a new, relatively cheaper plan that could save NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...

OSIRIS-REx then fired its engines to divert away from Earth and is now headed off to the asteroid Apophis, which it will follow through that asteroid's 2029 Earth flyby.

On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth and dropped a sample of asteroid Bennu to Utah's West Desert. The mission went "absolutely perfectly," and NASA scientists hope the sample will ...

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 ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

So OSIRIS-REx has always had the strategy and everything we've done is go slow and careful and methodical. And that is absolutely going-- It was just transcendental.