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The Near Earth Object Surveyor infrared telescope is moving toward its preliminary design phase, led by University of Arizona professor Amy Mainzer. NASA plans to launch the surveyor in 2026. (Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Arizona professor will lead NASA project to locate menacing objects near Earth

NASA has appointed a professor at the University of Arizona to lead the Near Earth Object Surveyor project.

Final assembly in 2015 of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which launched in 2016. University of Arizona teams had been working on the project for more than a decade when it reached a near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, this week and executed a touch-and-go mission to briefly “tag” the surface, collect soil samples and head back to orbit. (Photo courtesy Lockheed Martin)

University of Arizona team cheers success of asteroid-contact mission

After years of work, $800 million and 200 million miles in space, it all came down to six seconds - the time OSIRIS-REx spent on the surface of near-Earth...

2018 World Video Game Hall of Fame finalists announced

Meet the finalists for induction into 2018 World Video Game Hall of Fame.

Starfighters Arcade expands and upgrades to new location

The intergalactic heroes at Starfighters Arcade in Mesa will soon be moving their vintage video-game gallery to a bigger and better East Valley location.

David Williams: ASU researcher, Star Trek fan club president, asteroid namesake

For David Williams, the Final Frontier was just a beginning.

Even for a marching band, this video game program is deliciously nerdy

OSU marching band’s halftime show celebrates video games And now, the Ohio State University marching band’s epic Oct. 6, 2012, halftime performance...