A trio of rock hunters donated samples of the meteor that blazed across Nevada and California last month to the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab. The lab, which is currently working on OSIRIS-REx, a NASA ...

A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

Scientists find several building blocks of life on Bennu, an extraterrestrial asteroid, whose samples were collected by a ...

An artist's rendering depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-and-Go Sample Arm Mechanism. In samples taken from a distant asteroid, scientists have discovered a ...

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 ...

A portion of the asteroid Bennu sample delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, set into a microscope slide at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Molly ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the origins ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have been analyzing it ever since. International scientific teams have published ...

Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely unexpected — not only does the asteroid contain the chemical building blocks of life, but it also originated from an ancient, ...

Jessica Barnes examines a vial containing sample particles at the Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis, located at the University of Arizona. Asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA's ...