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Two years after its , NASA’s is closing in on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu and sending back pictures that provide one gem of a 360-degree view. Last Friday, OSIRIS-REx captured imagery over the course of a four-hour, 11-minute period to take in...

An artist’s conception shows what the interstellar asteroid Oumuamua might look like. Or does it actually look more an alien light sail? (ESO Illustration / M. Kornmesser) ‘Oumuamua is long gone from the inner solar system, but the has been rekindled...

(University of Arizona College of Engineering) Hispanics, African-Americans and American Indian/Alaska Natives made up 32.4 percent of the US population in the 2016 census prediction, but they made up 12.7 percent of US citizens who received science...

A black-and-white view of the International Space Station is overlaid with telemetry data in an image from an approaching Soyuz craft in 2014. (NASA TV) One of the three computers on the Russian side of the International Space Station has crashed, bu...

A full-scale fuel preburner for Stratolaunch’s PGA rocket engine undergoes a test firing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. (Stratolaunch Photo) , the space venture founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it has successfully comp...

(University of Pennsylvania) A team of Penn Engineers has demonstrated a new material they call 'nanocardboard,' an ultrathin equivalent of corrugated paper cardboard. A square centimeter of nanocardboard weighs less than a thousandth of a...

(University of Leeds) Leeds researchers have been awarded a £10.1m investment from UK Research and Innovation to expand a digital pathology and artificial intelligence programme across the North of England.

(Geological Society of America) Many farms have areas where the ground either floods or does not retain enough water or fertilizer for crops to thrive. Such marginal lands could become useful and potentially profitable if they are planted with perenn...

Payload development engineer Marko Baricevic of Tethers Unlimited Inc. conducts flight certification tests at Marshall Space Flight Center. (NASA Photo / Emmett Givens) There’s nothing new about having a 3-D printer in space, but how about a 3-D prin...