Scientists say NASA should quarantine alien life on the moon before any space samples are brought back to Earth

A new policy paper proposes a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples. This secure lunar laboratory would ...

Scientists Warn Mars Samples May Need a Lunar Quarantine Before Coming to Earth, Here's Why

A new study proposes examining Mars and other space samples on the Moon before bringing them to Earth, arguing it would ...

Chinese Tianwen-2 space probe reaches asteroid for sampling

After a yearlong flight of a billion kilometers, a Chinese space probe is set to take samples from an asteroid. The mission ...
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Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists

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 ...

Chinese space probe reaches asteroid for first sample collection

China's Tianwen-2 probe reaches its asteroid target for the nation's first sample collection, marking a milestone in its ...
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NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket

NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ideas ...