Humberto Campins News

UCF Physics professors eager to see what new images will reveal about asteroid Bennu ahead of returning samples to Earth in 2023.

NASA also announces successful storage of asteroid Bennu sample, after a 36-hour marathon operation.

UCF Professor Humberto Campins shares excitement about his involvement with NASA’s first mission to retrieve an asteroid sample.

UCF professor part of team which published findings in Nature Astronomy this week. The study  sheds light on the intricate orbital dance of asteroids.

Students enrolled in this semester’s Comets, Asteroids and Meteorites class will get a behind-the-scenes experience thanks to physics Professor Humberto Campins, who is teaching remotely from the site of mission control for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx.

After making necessary changes to their mapping plan, researchers conducted a successful dress rehearsal ahead of the August sampling event.

Research team offers three explanations for why the asteroid is ejecting particles into space.

UCF physics Professor Humberto Campins is part of the team studying Bennu, which may contain the molecular precursors to the origin of life and the Earth’s oceans.

Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico plays a role in OSIRIS REx mission planning.