Bennu’s extremely weak gravity and treacherous ... device ensnared some of it to bring home to Earth. These incoming particles passed through a barrier, kind of like a mylar doggie door ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that a fifth fundamental force might exist. Unlike the four already identified ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission made contact with the asteroid Bennu for about 4.7 seconds ... just long enough to gather small particles of dust and rock stirred up by a blast ...

It's time for our annual listener question show, where we find answers to your burning science questions like: is the ...

If Bennu hit Earth, Dr Dai and his co-authors estimate that 100 to 400 million tonnes of dust would linger above Earth for around two years. Those dust particles would act like a vast planet-wide ...

For hundreds of millions of years, a top-shaped rubble pile called Bennu has orbited the sun in relative isolation. The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate ...

Scientists have identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which detected the powerful ...

Dust particles thrown up from deserts such as the Sahara and Gobi are playing a previously unknown role in air pollution, a new study has found. The international study published in National ...

Nearly two years after launch, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission caught its first glimpse of the asteroid Bennu on Aug. 17 from 1.4 million miles away. The asteroid appeared as a ...

The method involves observing how clay particles settle in salt water. The presence of the virus alters the clay's settling rate. This new approach offers a simple and affordable testing alternative.

As plastic breaks down, it forms micro- (<5 mm) and nanoparticles (<100 nm), which can enter the food chain and end up in seafood and other foods people eat. Studies estimate that a person may ...

8 workers were sent inside 10-foot deep tank to extract particles, 2 in critical condition According to reports, the tragedy happened when one worker lost consciousness after entering the ...