June 9, 2021 Asteroid 16 Psyche Might Not Be What Scientists Expected New research by a UArizona undergraduate finds that asteroid 16 Psyche, the target of an upcoming NASA mission, may not be as metallic or dense as predicted.
May 25, 2021 $2M Gift Advances UArizona Space Science Initiatives The gift will allow for the purchase of a nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometer, which the OSIRIS-REx analysis team will use to help find answers to questions about the origins of the solar system.
April 15, 2021 ABOR Confirms 6 New Regents Professors at UArizona The Arizona Board of Regents confirmed the appointments of UArizona faculty members Steven Archer, Sonia Colina, Marwan Krunz, Dante Lauretta, Sallie Marston and Ian Pepper as Regents Professors.
April 7, 2021 NASA's OSIRIS-REx Completes Final Tour of Asteroid Bennu Mission scientists will compare the final shots of the asteroid Bennu with images taken before the touch-and-go maneuver, which kicked up dust and rocks.
April 1, 2021 A Final Look At Bennu Before OSIRIS-REx Heads Home The OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu's surface during October's sample collection.
Feb. 8, 2021 OSIRIS-REx to Fly a Farewell Tour of Bennu Before departing for Earth on May 10, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will perform a final flyby of Bennu – capturing its last images of sample collection site Nightingale.
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.
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. 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 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.