2024 Hitachi Electron Microscopy Scholarship June 3, 2024 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. Read more Image
All About Asteroids with OSIRIS-REx and SPACEWATCH March 14, 2024 Host Dr. Erika Hamden Ph.D, Professor of Astrophysics at the U of A, visits the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory to learn about recent missions to visit asteroids and views dust from asteroid Bennu. Read more Image
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Curation Team Clears Hurdle to Access Remaining Bennu Sample Jan. 11, 2024 Before this milestone, the curation team already had collected more than the 60 grams required to declare the mission a success. Read more Image
Sweating The Small Stuff: UArizona Scientists Have Begun To Study Samples From Asteroid Bennu Dec. 20, 2023 At the university's Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis, a suite of instruments allows researchers to study the particles collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission the down to the atomic scale. Read more Image
2023 McKay Awardee - Zoë Wilbur Nov. 3, 2023 Zoë Wilbur is a fifth-year planetary sciences graduate student who studies cosmochemistry. Read more Image
OSIRIS-REx Flies on as OSIRIS-APEX to Explore a Second Asteroid Oct. 31, 2023 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission learned much about the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu and its risk to Earth. Now, the mission will change hands and target a different kind of potentially hazardous asteroid, Apophis. Read more Image
UArizona Launches Arizona Astrobiology Center to Unlock the Mysteries of Life in the Universe Oct. 17, 2023 The center will bring together students and faculty from across campus and disciplines to unravel the enigma of life's beginnings and our place in the cosmos. Read more Image
First Look at Bennu Sample Reveals Carbon and Water Oct. 11, 2023 NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has returned a sample that scientists will study for decades to learn more about the formation of the solar system. Read more Image
A Gift from Space: UArizona-led OSIRIS-REx Mission Delivers Largest-ever Asteroid Sample to Earth Sept. 24, 2023 The delivery from the asteroid Bennu, seven years after the spacecraft launched, marks the end of the space-voyaging phase of the mission. Scientists will now study the rocks and dust to better understand the origins of life on Earth. Read more Image
OSIRIS-REx's Successful Sample Delivery Marks the Start of Extended OSIRIS-APEX Mission Sept. 24, 2023 After dropping off its historic sample from asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is headed to its next target: another potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid, called Apophis. Read more Image