A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...

This artist's illustration shows NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooming past Earth on Sept. 22, 2017 — a maneuver designed to boost the probe’s speed and refine its course toward the asteroid Bennu.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The NASA mission – designed, built and flown by Lockheed Martin (LMT) – aims to uncover new learnings about the building blocks of life in our solar system UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Utah, Sept. 24 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — It’s been a real point of pride that the University of Arizona led a mission to grab a sample of an asteroid and bring it to Earth. Now those samples are teaching us more about ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is attempting one of the most delicate maneuvers in space exploration. After collecting material ...

The Arizona Daily Star has been counting down to the launch of the OSIRIS-REx mission for the past 10 days, and now it’s here. This University of Arizona-led mission aims to collect a sample of an ...

Nearly two years after launch, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission caught its first glimpse of the asteroid Bennu on Aug. 17, from 1.4 million miles away. The asteroid appeared as a speck ...

A new book tells the story of the mastermind who directed NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx mission Diane Tedeschi Initially, your entire group was responsible for selecting the landing site. Ultimately, you ...

Daniel Stolte of the UA Communications team reports that the UA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which will send a space probe to an asteroid for a few years before returning to Earth, is a go: OSIRIS-REx, the ...

Michelle Thompson, associate professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences in the College of Science, will present “A Time Machine to the Early Solar System: Analyzing Samples from Asteroid ...