Discover the Atomic World

The Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis awards the Hitachi Scholarship in Electron Microscopy annually to two graduate students generating cutting-edge research and publications in the area of electron microscopy. The scholarship was established by Hitachi High-Technologies as part of their partnership with the University of Arizona.

Researchers continue to analyze the sample brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu — and among the things they’ve found is that Bennu’s parent asteroid was made up of materials from all over the solar system.

Three new papers reveal yet more secrets from samples collected by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory led OSIRIS-REx mission from asteroid Bennu.