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. 15, 2020 Packard Fellowship Will Help Cosmologist Probe What the Universe is Made Of Elisabeth Krause has been selected for a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. The $875,000 award will allow her to expand her research on the structure of the universe.
Oct. 14, 2020 $1.8M to Advance Device for Detecting COVID-19, Cancer, Contaminants A biomedical engineering professor's technology detects ultra-low levels of disease particles, performance-enhancing drugs, contaminants and "anything worth sensing."
Oct. 14, 2020 Carbon Accounting Must Include City Greenery, Researchers Say A new study shows that LA's manicured lawns, emerald golf courses and trees have a surprisingly large influence on the city's carbon dioxide emissions.
Oct. 13, 2020 Tech Launch Arizona Recognizes UArizona Inventors With Virtual Awards, Expo Along with honoring the awardees, the commemorative website for TLA's annual I-Squared Expo& Awards profiles nine innovative university research teams and the inventions and startups they are working to bring to the world.
Oct. 13, 2020 Without the North American Monsoon, Reining in Wildfires Gets Harder Putting an end to high-severity fires may become harder as climate change makes monsoon storms less frequent and more extreme.
