OSIRIS-REx fired braking rockets to slow its speed to match Bennu's. It orbited the asteroid and began a months-long survey in October 2020. Extensive mapping, from an altitude of about 3 miles ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission created these images using false-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) composites of asteroid Bennu. A 2D map and spacecraft imagery were overlaid on a shape model of the asteroid ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is conducting a final flyby of the asteroid Bennu on Wednesday. The spacecraft made history when it briefly touched down on the asteroid on October 20, 2020, and ...

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 ...

Bennu, discovered in 1999, ... Osiris-Rex launched in 2016 and arrived at Bennu a couple of years later, making observations at a distance. From those remote findings, ...

OSIRIS-REx also discovered that Bennu’s orbit is changing. A “day” on Bennu lasts a short 4 hours and 17.8 minutes. But that’s enough to heat up the asteroid’s dayside.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this photo of the asteroid Bennu on Nov. 16, 2018, from a distance of 85 miles (136 kilometers). OSIRIS-REx arrived at the space rock on Dec. 3.

OSIRIS-REx is outfitted with a suite of instruments to help it get better acquainted with Bennu. These include several cameras to examine the asteroid’s surface, a laser altimeter to map its ...

OSIRIS-REx’s touchdown on Bennu is slated to occur at some point in 2020, as is the actual collection of the sample to be returned to Earth. If all goes to plan, the sample return will land back ...

[NARRATOR]: The OSIRIS-REx timeline includes five years to design and build the instruments and spacecraft, two years to reach Bennu, a year and a half mapping and studying the asteroid before ...

A NASA spacecraft is conducting a final flyby of the asteroid Bennu on Wednesday, capturing images of the asteroid’s surface from just 2.3 miles away. OSIRIS-REx’s images should reveal the ...