Just as the University of Arizona-led spacecraft OSIRIS-REx prepares to begin orbiting the asteroid Bennu, it turns out the consequences of President Trump’s continued government shutdown over a ...

The UA is headed back out to space with a new NASA mission in roughly three weeks. Asteroid hunter OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for liftoff on Thursday, Sept. 8. The pretty damn cool science mission, led ...

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

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

A UA-led telescope atop of Mount Graham has captured the first glimpse of an asteroid-bound spacecraft since its launch in September 2016. The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, an international ...

UA scientists leading a seven-year NASA mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth celebrated a “happy week” for the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft by releasing the first images taken by its camera. At ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A sample from a primitive asteroid that was parachuted into Utah's West Desert in 2023 revealed the building blocks of life, scientists announced. NASA on Wednesday revealed ...

TL;DR: NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe delivered samples from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Researchers have since analyzed these samples to study their contents. When NASA announced it had collected samples ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected. "On ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

Ingredients essential to kick-start life have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission was led by researchers at the University of Arizona and Arizona ...