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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launches aboard a ULA Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

UA-led mission accomplished: Asteroid sample returns to Earth

Danielle Hartshorn
September 21, 2023
The transmission electron microscope is one of many high-quality machines that researchers at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory use. The recent grant the LPL received from NASA will help to support the cost of machines like the TEM, which allows scientists to see individual atoms.

Planetary sciences: Upcoming plans for the UA’s OSIRIS-REx mission

Kanishka Chinnaraj
February 21, 2023
Digital illustration of graduates throwing their caps into the air.

University of Arizona seniors celebrate 158th commencement ceremony with remarks from OSIRIS-REx leader

Jeremiah Ludwig
May 18, 2022
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

What the OSIRIS-REx mission is doing now

Jillian Bartsch
February 26, 2021
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

History in the now: First asteroid sample through NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission

Jillian Bartsch
October 20, 2020
A color composite image of Earth taken on Sept. 22 by the MapCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. This image was taken just hours after the spacecraft completed its Earth Gravity Assist at a range of approximately 106,000 miles.

Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu may have formed from direction collision in space, could be siblings

Alexandra Pere
June 17, 2020
Lindsey Koelbel a freshman at the University of Arizona received a prestigious fellowship.

UA student lands Brooke Owens fellowship and prestigious internship

Gabriella Cobian
February 24, 2020
The Art of Planetary Science will take place at the Kuiper Space Sciences building on the weekend of Nov. 15-17. Graduate students from the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory have been volunteering since 2013 to keep this event running.

‘Art of Planetary Science’ paints the universe

Isabella Barron
November 8, 2019
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launches aboard a ULA Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft getting closer to collecting asteroid samples

Sydney Jones
October 14, 2019
(left to right) University of Arizona President Robert Robbins, Dante Lauretta, and student Keara Burke hold a press conference about OSIRIS-REx on Monday in the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.

OSIRIS-REx arrives to asteroid Bennu after two years of space travel

Alana Minkler
December 3, 2018
Interpretive dancers perform "The Myth of Urashima Taro." Art performances as well as scientific presentations were given to celebrate OSIRIS-REx's spacecraft arriving at the asteroid Bennu to collect samples.

Bennuval ties science and humanities together in celebration of OSIRIS-REx

Connor Fries and Emily Chressanthis
December 2, 2018
At 12:52 p.m. EDT on Sept. 22, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft came within 10,711 miles of Antarctica, just south of Cape Horn, Chile, before following a route north over the Pacific Ocean.

A new view: What OSIRIS-REx saw as it passed the earth

Owen Zerambo
September 26, 2017
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, enclosed in a payload fairing, is lifted at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that is to lift OSIRIS-REx into space was stacked at SLC-41 so the spacecraft and fairing could be hoisted and bolted to the rocket promptly. The spacecraft will be sent to rendezvous with, survey and take a sample from an asteroid called Bennu.

One year after launch, OSIRIS-REx flies by Earth

Nicole Morin
September 12, 2017
Mission Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta poses in front of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during its construction at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colo. OSIRIS-REx will investigate and collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

Asteroid Day: An ode to the extraterrestrial

Rebekah Ulmer
June 29, 2017
OSIRIS-REx is prepared for encapsulation in its payload fairing in 2016. This February, the probe searched for "Trojan asteroids" that accompany Earth in its solar orbit.

Looking to yesterday and tomorrow with OSIRIS-REx

Owen Zerambo
May 10, 2017
S91-49083 (17 Oct. 1991) --- Astronaut Charles F. Bolden Jr.

Former NASA admin named UA commencement speaker

Elizabeth Quinlan
March 19, 2017
Photos of OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with the ULA fairing inside the PHSF; angles of the setup for Media Day - sent to proper ITAR personnel for review of setup - Cleared to post to Flickr.

OSIRIS-REx to search for Trojan Asteroids

Hannah Dahl
January 12, 2017
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

Three science events to look out for in 2017

Hannah Dahl
January 11, 2017
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump plays to the crowd as he walks to the podium during a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016.

2016: Trump, President Hart, OSIRIS-REx, Brother Dean’s arrest and Zika, my-oh-my the end is near

Rocky Baier
December 7, 2016
An artist’s concept of the Psyche spacecraft, a proposed mission for NASA’s Discovery program that would explore the huge metal Psyche asteroid from orbit

UA scientists discover water on metal asteroid

Chandler Donald
November 13, 2016
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