NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s original mission was to fly to the asteroid Bennu, where it was mean to briefly land on the body’s presumably rocky surface, collect a small sample, and head back home.

After analyzing data gathered when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, scientists have learned something astonishing: The spacecraft would have sunk ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had a mission in 2020: fly to Bennu, an asteroid about 200 million miles from earth, land briefly, collect a small sample, and return home. But its mission was thwarted, ...