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Where Rocks Come Alive: OSIRIS-REx Observes an Asteroid in Action
11+ min ago (689+ words) It's 5 o'clock somewhere. And while here on Earth, "happy hour" is commonly associated with winding down and the optional cold beverage, that's when things get going on Bennu, the destination asteroid of the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx NASA mission. In…...
An Asteroid of a Different Color … and Other Secrets of Bennu Unlocked
11+ min ago (631+ words) Scientists now know much more about the material NASA's first asteroid sample return mission will be collecting in just a few weeks. In a special collection of six papers published today in the journals Science and Science Advances, scientists with…...
Bennu holds the solar system's 'original ingredients,' might have been part of a wet world
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (600+ words) A microscope image of a dark Bennu particle, about a millimeter long, with a crust of bright phosphate. To the right is a smaller fragment that broke off. From Lauretta & Connolly et al. (2024) Meteoritics & Planetary Science A deep dive into…...
Highly Porous Rocks Responsible for Bennu's Surprisingly Craggy Surface
11+ min ago (504+ words) OSIRIS-REx mission scientists thought sampling a piece of Bennu would be like a walk on the beach, but the surprisingly craggy surface proved to be more of a challenge. Scientists thought asteroid Bennu's surface would be like a sandy beach,…...
Sweating the small stuff: UArizona scientists have begun to study samples from asteroid Bennu
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (912+ words) Video Produced by Arlene IslasLately, Tom Zega has been watching his caffeine intake before heading to work. As a co-investigator of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team, Zega is one of a small, but growing, number of scientists who have begun…...
First look at Bennu sample reveals carbon, water
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (303+ words) A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Sample material from asteroid Bennu can be seen on the middle right. Scientists have found evidence of both carbon and water in initial analysis of this material. The bulk of…...
OSIRIS-REx Successfully Stows Sample of Asteroid Bennu
27+ min ago (429+ words) Taken on Oct. 28 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, this image shows the collector head after it was separated from the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism arm. The collector head is secured onto the capture ring in the Sample Return Capsule. NASA's University…...
Astronomer launches the 2026–27 African American Workshop and Lecture Series
4+ hour, 58+ min ago (186+ words) University of Oregon Astronomer launches the 2026–27 African American Workshop and Lecture Series Join Eric M. Wilcots, interim chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for the 2026-27 African American Workshop and Lecture Series. Wilcots will explore the forces shaping galaxies like the…...
Complex Organic Molecules In Protostars With ALMA Spectral Surveys (COMPASS) VII. First Interstellar Detection Of Fully Deuterated Methanol
10+ hour, 58+ min ago (329+ words) [astro-ph.GA] There have been no robust identifications of fully deuterated methanol, CD3OD, in the interstellar medium (ISM) to date. Our goal is continue the search for CD3OD in star-forming regions to determine the deuteration pattern of methanol and set constraints on…...
Discovery Of A Second-generation Planet Candidate Accreting Onto A White Dwarf
11+ hour, 3+ min ago (161+ words) Astrobiology Web The composition of accreted debris has been shown to be diverse yet overall closely resembles Solar System bodies. We report the discovery of a white dwarf accreting material that is unlike any Solar System object. The atmosphere of…...