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A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.

After dropping off its historic sample from asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is headed to its next target: another potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid, called Apophis.

The Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville seeks to fill a faculty position in Hydrogeology & Water Science with emphasis in water movement, quality, storage, and/or interactions with soils and rocks.

A new machine learning technique could one day fly to Mars to evaluate the possibility of life on the red planet—and also reveal ancient life on Earth.

About 70% of the sample will remain pristine, allowing future generations with better technology to learn more from it

MIT Professor Richard Binzel describes how asteroid dirt and dust delivered by OSIRIS-Rex, with help from MIT students and the REXIS instrument, may reveal clues to the solar system’s origins.

The sample landed by parachute in the Utah desert and was collected by NASA staff.

Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences welcomes 61 new members whose scholarship spans academic disciplines.

The National Testing Agency(NTA) will conduct the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (CSIR-UGC NET) examination from December 26 to December 28, 2023.

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