Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA's first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

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Founded in 1985, City Lore has become an iconic institution in the heart of New York City, dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich, living cultural heritage of the city and beyond. Now an ...

The order has also affected federally funded museums—the Smithsonian Institution and Washington, DC’s National Gallery of Art (NGA) have closed their diversity offices. The NGA made its ...

The museum’s move followed a similar one last week by the National Gallery ... By Zachary Small Reporting on the art world The Smithsonian Institution informed employees on Tuesday that it ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

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The Smithsonian Institution will close its Office of Diversity, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday, only a week after President Donald Trump directed all federal diversity, equity and inclusion ...

the oral historian at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art and producer of the series. The Archives is home to the world’s largest collection of oral histories related to the visual arts ...