LPL Spotlight Stories

Bennu is among millions of primitive asteroids composed of molecules that may have been the precursors to life on Earth. (Image: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)

Bennu: How a Little Asteroid Became a Rock Star

By Robin Tricoles, University Relations - Communications, June 29, 2016 Carl Hergenrother fingers a stack of white, 8 1/2- by

Systems engineer Bradley Williams with the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in the Lockheed Martin cleanroom.

UA Engineering Students, Alumni Critical to OSIRIS-REx Mission

By Jill Goetz, UA College of Engineering, September 6, 2016 When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft lifts off aboard an Atlas V