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 – ...

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For the first time, NASA-funded researchers can apply for access to lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e-5 mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Researchers have found all five of the essential bases that make up DNA and RNA in samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu.

The University of Arizona took the lead in a mission to grab a sample of an asteroid and bring it to Earth for analysis. That sample is set to land in September. Now the lab at UA Lunar and Planetary ...

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 ...

HOUSTON (KTVX) — If you can get a scientist to say “wow,” then you’re in pretty impressive territory. According to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid researchers, they’ve been saying “wow” quite a bit since ...

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 ...

A capsule containing precious samples from an asteroid landed safely on Earth on Sunday, the culmination of a roughly 4-billion-mile journey over the past seven years. Subscribe to read this story ...