A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Science sleuths are stepping up efforts to detect bogus science papers. This includes building tools that comb through ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

In her first column, APS President Randi Martin makes the case for collaborative research that cuts across research areas. In ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu ... before life started on Earth." In research papers published Wednesday in the journals ...

Trump’s nominees have big plans for remaking the federal health agencies, with consequences for university scientists who receive billions in funding.

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry provided powerful tools to study asteroid samples returned by NASA ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid whose components have remained relatively unchanged since the solar system's early days. NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission captured samples from the surface of the asteroid and ...