NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission set out to grab a small scoop of rock from asteroid Bennu and bring it home. Instead, it delivered ...

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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A visit to an asteroid is revealing the origins of life in our solar system. In 2023, the OSIRIS-REx mission brough samples from the asteroid Bennu to Earth. This month, the results of ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission will swoop in for one last close-up view of the asteroid Bennu on Wednesday, before heading home next month. The maneuver will bring the unmanned probe ...

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 ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket bearing the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and the hopes and plans of a small army of planetary scientists led by the University of Arizona, lifted from Cape Canaveral ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...