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 Earth.

NASA's first asteroid sample-return mission is in the home stretch toward its home planet. The agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fired its attitude-control thrusters on Sunday (Sept. 10) in a subtle but ...

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Dugway • A NASA capsule returning more than 200 million miles from the surface of asteroid Bennu, which scientists hope contains clues to the origins of our universe, landed among the sand and scrub ...