A NASA mission led by the University of Arizona is at risk of cancellation, putting groundbreaking asteroid research and millions in local funding in jeopardy.

Vertical has acquired North American rights to William Kaufman’s sci-fi thriller “ Osiris,” starring Max Martini, Brianna Hildebrand, LaMonica Garrett, Linds Edwards and Linda Hamilton ...

When NASA’s only major concerns for the OSIRIS-REx launch on Thursday are some fluffy white clouds, you know the mission is in good shape. The mission, led by the University of Arizona’s Lunar ...

Recently there has been a spate of scientific papers containing the phrase “ vegetative electron microscopy/microscope “. The term suggests a device for scanning broccoli, but it is utter ...

"We successfully measured seismoacoustic signals produced by the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule using DAS, representing the first such measurement with this instrumentation," the paper reads.

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will award its 2025 Michael Collins Trophy to Margaret Hamilton for Lifetime Achievement and the OSIRIS-REx Team for Current Achievement. These annual ...

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2182.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ancient asteroid back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have ...