Samples of micro organisms, antibodies, fluorescent dyes and rock from Devon are amongst a European payload which will be sent into near Earth orbit this week onboard an unmanned Russian spacecraft – ...

In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space agency has been collecting from Mars’ Jezero Crater since 2021. NASA earlier ...

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases a capsule with material from asteroid Bennu onto the Utah desert on Sept. 24, it will become the latest in a line of missions to gather samples from space ...

China plans to launch two heavy-lift Long March 5 rockets with elements of the Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission in 2028, the mission’s chief designer said Thursday. In a presentation at a Chinese ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On day one of this administration, the president included his ambitions for Mars in his inaugural address, and again several weeks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a sample back to Earth ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have discovered solar-wind hydrogen in lunar samples, which indicates that water on the surface of the moon may provide a vital resource for future ...

NASA has succeeded in bringing back to Earth a capsule containing samples gathered from an asteroid — a first for the space agency. The sample return capsule (SRC) from the OSIRIS-REx mission landed ...

The once inaccessible sample container has been fully opened, and NASA has released the numbers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

'There is now a genuine chance that China could return Martian samples before the U.S.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China has ...

A diagnostic tool, similar in theory to those used to non-invasively image internal organs could be equally effective at “triaging” extraterrestrial rocks and other samples before they are shipped to ...