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The OSIRIS-RX spacecraft has been orbiting the asteroid Bennu since the end of 2018. The mission – which is the original, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith Explorer – was launched in September 2016. Since arriving in Bennu, the spacecraft and its cameras have been collecting and sending back …

Scientists around the world are rushing to find a cure for coronavirus, including a young girl. Courtesy 3M Young Scientist Challenge 14-year-old Anika Chebrolle won the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Anika Shebrolu, 14, of Frisco, Texas, has won the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge – and a 25,000 prize …

In November 2018, after the epic, after a 41-year journey, Voyager 2 finally crossed the line that marked the limits of the Sun’s influence and entered international space. But a little investigation mission is not yet complete – it is now sending home information about space outside the solar system. …

Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematician in mathematics at Oxford University, won the Nobel Prize earlier this month for the lifetime of the study of black holes, from which even light cannot escape. Yet it is also behind the provocative and controversial theory about the creation of the universe – that …

Scientists have so far measured the short-term unit: the time it takes lighter particles to cross a hydrogen atom. That time, for the record, is 247 zeptoseconds. One zeptosecond is a trillion, or decimal point, in the billions of another, followed by 20 zeros and 1. Previously, researchers had dived …