Rocket Lab's MSR study involves two Neutron launches of a sample retrieval lander and Earth return orbiter. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — NASA has awarded a contract to Rocket Lab to study ...

Just over a year after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission returned the first subsurface sample of an asteroid to Earth, scientists have determined that the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu is a pristine remnant from ...

Introduction Cannabis use is common in the USA and is associated with adverse outcomes across many domains, including sleep difficulties. Targeting insomnia with an evidence-based treatment could ...

How did life come about? The answer to this question goes to the very heart of our existence on planet Earth. Did life simply arise from chemical reactions among organic compounds in a primordial soup ...

The study used stool samples from five healthy volunteers to grow ex vivo gut microbiome cultures. These cultures were then exposed to five common microplastic types—polystyrene, polypropylene, ...

New research from Notre Dame offers the first large-sample study on how rules and ethics training affects behavior and employment decisions in the financial sector. Can ethics be taught? New research ...

The morning of Oct. 17, 2019 started differently than most. I jammed a blood sugar sensor into my own arm after, of course, taking deep breaths and giving myself pep talks for 30 minutes. It only ...

Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the meteoroids are as tiny as grains of sand and small pebbles, and they completely burn ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a very popular analysis tool for 3D surface topology visualization and other measurements on a wide range of materials at nanoscales ...

The likelihood is low that bringing rocks to Earth from the red planet will make us sick, but the space agency isn’t taking any chances. Credit...Julian Glander Supported by By Sarah Scoles When Carl ...