OSIRIS-REx flies on as OSIRIS-APEX to explore a second asteroid

A spacecraft flies by an asteroid in the blackness of space
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

NASA extended the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission, which has since been renamed OSIRIS-APEX. The spacecraft will study another potentially hazardous, near-Earth asteroid named Apophis. 

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