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As a primitive celestial object heads towards Earth on Sunday morning, it will be safeguarded by a heat shield developed using state-of-the-art space...

The OSIRIS-REx mission is expected to shed new light on the nature and history of the solar system’s oldest building blocks

This morning at 10:52 a.m. ET, an asteroid sample collected as part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission landed in the Utah desert. In return for the Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) contribution to this mission, a portion of the asteroid material will go to Canada. It will be studied by generations of Canadian and international scientists.

Scientists plan to methodically examine samples from NASA's first asteroid mission, OSIRIS-REx, to figure out how our solar system formed.

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, shielded by Silicon Valley-designed heat shields, set to land early Sunday with precious cargo

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is carrying the first ever asteroid samples recovered by the agency. Now, after a 1.2 billion-mile journey back to Earth, it's about to land.

The OSIRIS-REx sample return in Utah will bring a seven-year, four-billion-mile journey to a close, providing insights into the birth of the solar system.

Canada will receive a 1/25 share of whatever the spacecraft has brought back as it is expected to land in a Utah desert on Sunday

NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe performed one last trajectory-correcting maneuver on Sunday (Sept. 17) to set up the Sept. 24 arrival of its asteroid sample here on Earth.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will see a sample of an asteroid return to Earth on Sept. 24. Here's how the mission's head scientist feels about the chances of success.