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

The Atlas V rocket carrying the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was rolled out Wednesday morning from the Vertical Integration Facility (left) to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo: Bob Demers/UANews)

Michael Drake's Dream Takes Off

By Doug Carroll, University Relations - Communications, September 7, 2016 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The embodiment of the late Michael