On Sept. 8, 2016, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx ...

Asteroid Bennu, the near-Earth object NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission sampled in 2020, has long been treated by scientists as a ...

When it comes to asteroid samples, you can never have too much of a good thing. On Wednesday, jubilant NASA officials offered the first glimpse of their surprising haul from the University of ...

Members of the OSIRIS-REx science team will be honored during Saturday’s football game at Arizona Stadium, a little over a month after they scored a spectacular touchdown of their own. The Wildcats ...

Nitrogen is a key ingredient in the biomolecules that form the building blocks of life. Yet as an unbonded gas, it is far ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman led a return visit to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on Sept. 2 as part of ...

In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular ...

Ryugu asteroid prebiotic chemistry advances with a 2026 Nature Astronomy study confirming that Hayabusa2 samples show ancient ...

When a New Glenn rocket spectacularly blew apart at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in May, it released ultra-low-frequency sound waves that reached as far as Texas. Researchers estimate ...

When Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle accidentally exploded during a static test fire in May 2026, the explosion generated low frequency soundwaves below the range of human hearing.

Is asteroid Apophis ever going to hit Earth? For a while, people had reason to worry. When astronomers first spotted it back in 2004, their early calculations showed a small, but ...

Dr. Martha Leake, professor of astronomy and physics in VSU’s College of Science and Mathematics, presented “August Skies, ...