Jan. 26, 2021 UArizona-Led OSIRIS-REx Mission Plans for May Asteroid Departure On May 10, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will depart asteroid Bennu and begin its two-year journey back to Earth, where scientists will study the dust and rocks it collected from the asteroid's surface.
Dec. 14, 2020 COVID-19, Asteroid Dust and Crane Flies: UArizona's Top Stories of 2020 Preventing a COVID-19 outbreak through wastewater testing, tagging an asteroid and solving a longstanding Maya mystery were all in a year's work at the University of Arizona.
Oct. 30, 2020 Asteroid's Scars Tell Stories of its Past Impact craters in the boulders on asteroid Bennu allowed researchers to reconstruct the history of the near-Earth object in unprecedented detail.
Oct. 29, 2020 OSIRIS-REx Successfully Stows Sample of Asteroid Bennu NASA's UArizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully stowed the spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule and its abundant sample of asteroid Bennu.
Oct. 23, 2020 OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully collected a large sample from the asteroid Bennu. But because some large pieces of rock are keeping the sample head from fully closing, the team has decided to expedite the stowing process.
Oct. 20, 2020 OSIRIS-REx Successfully Touches Asteroid Bennu in Sample Grab Ten years after NASA selected UArizona to lead the OSIRIS-REx mission, the spacecraft successfully completed its most treacherous and rewarding task: sample collection.
Oct. 20, 2020 UArizona Mission Members Celebrate OSIRIS-REx Success Members of the UArizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission gathered at the university's Michael J. Drake Building to watch NASA's broadcast of the mission's Touch-and-Go sampling event.
Oct. 19, 2020 What Touching an Asteroid Can Teach Us NASA will make history on Oct. 20 by attempting to grab a sample from an asteroid. UArizona professor Dante Lauretta, principal investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission, discusses the significance.
Oct. 15, 2020 Why Scooping a Sample from an Asteroid is Harder than it Looks Here's what will happen on Oct. 20, when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descends to asteroid Bennu to pick up a sample of pristine material from the formation of the solar system.
Oct. 8, 2020 An Asteroid of a Different Color … and Other Secrets of Bennu Unlocked The UArizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission will attempt to collect a sample from asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20. Before the spacecraft touches the surface, scientists are learning more about the material that makes up the asteroid.
