The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

The OSIRIS-APEX mission, a follow-up to OSIRIS-REx, which successfully returned a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023, has repurposed the spacecraft to visit a new target, asteroid Apophis.

Nanopores are under investigation for single-molecule DNA sequencing. The α-hemolysin (αHL) protein nanopore contains three recognition points capable of nucleobase discrimination in individual ...

An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent asteroid target Bennu.

The University of Arizona's Kuiper Laboratory is the stage for these discoveries, where researchers utilize cutting-edge instruments to analyze these particles down to the atomic scale. One of the ...

Though both have tear-jerking sentiment, funerals or memorial services ranked below death beds and final “goodbyes” ranked above funerals and memorial services (27% vs 15%). And despite every early ...

In a new study published in the scientific journal Icarus, scientists used data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to make a precise calculation of Bennu’s orbit and its future proximity to our ...

A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...