NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft arrives at Asteroid Bennu

Dec 04, 2018, at 05:37 pm

Washington, Dec 4 (IBNS): NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx begins Earth-Trojan Asteroid search

Feb 10, 2017, at 10:12 pm

Washington, Feb 10 (IBNS): A NASA spacecraft begins its search Thursday for an enigmatic class of near-Earth objects known as Earth-Trojan asteroids. OSIRIS-REx, currently on a two-year outbound journey to the asteroid Bennu, will spend almost two weeks searching for evidence of these small bodies.