On Sept. 22, OSIRIS-REx soared under the South Pole, coming within 10,600 miles of Earth before using the planet's gravity to slingshot itself onto the path to the asteroid Bennu. The flyby was the ...

The camera system that Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS) is providing for NASA’s 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu has successfully completed environmental testing at Lockheed ...

Incredible new images show the breathtaking journey of Rosetta's Philae lander as it approached and then rebounded from its first touchdown on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014.

During the very first observations of Rosetta's flyby target 2867-Steins in March 2006 the onboard camera OSIRIS obtained the most accurate 'light curve' of this asteroid so far. During the very first ...

The first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth is another step closer to its fall 2016 launch, with the delivery of three cameras that will image and map the giant space rock. A ...

When the OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at asteroid Bennu, it found a body that looked and behaved quite differently from what scientists had expected. When NASA started planning its first mission to snatch ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — An OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona on April 14 according to UA News, brought the spacecraft within just over 200 feet of the surface of the ...

The first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth is another step closer to its fall 2016 launch, with the delivery of three cameras that will image and map the giant space rock. A ...