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Asteroid-circling spacecraft grabs cool snapshot of home

Jan. 7, 2019

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took a picture of asteroid Bennu, the Earth and the moon days before going into orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31.

Read more at The Associated Press

A NASA spacecraft has set records after entering orbit around an asteroid

Dec. 30, 2018

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft entered into orbit around the asteroid Bennu, making Bennu the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.

Read more at Time

Getting the dirt on creation: Inside OSIRIS-REx's first close look at Bennu

Dec. 18, 2018

"The findings are really, really exciting for us," said OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta during a news conference at the American Geophysical Union meeting.

Read more at Scientific American

NASA 'hits the jackpot' in mission to bring back a sample from an asteroid

Dec. 9, 2018

Observations made during the spacecraft's approach of Bennu reveal that that the asteroid interacted with water in its early history and is an excellent specimen for the mission.

Read more at Daily Mail

Water found on asteroid by OSIRIS-REx explorer

Dec. 9, 2018

Observations made by the UA-led OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reveal that that the asteroid interacted with water in its early history and is an excellent specimen for the mission.

Read more at CNN

NASA spacecraft arrives at ancient asteroid, its 1st visitor

Dec. 2, 2018

The UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission recently made contact with Bennu.

Read more at The Associated Press

NASA's OSIRIS-REx arriving at asteroid Bennu after a two-year journey

Dec. 2, 2018

The UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission will make contact with Bennu.

Read more at The New York Times

NASA is about to grab a piece of an asteroid. That’s even harder than it sounds.

Dec. 2, 2018

The UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission made contact with Bennu on Monday.

Read more at The Washington Post

Watch NASA arrive at the asteroid on a potential collision course with Earth

Nov. 27, 2018

The UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission will make contact with Bennu on Dec. 3.

Read more at CNET

How this spacecraft will sample an asteroid’s rocks, without even landing on it

Nov. 27, 2018

More than two years after it launched, a spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx is approaching its target, an asteroid named Bennu. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien explains the delicate“touch and go” method of sampling the asteroid's surface.

Read more at PBS Newshour