Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

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The samples could change what we know about the origins of the solar system. A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

NASA aims to return Martian soil and rock samples to Earth in the 2030s, marking the first such planetary sample return mission. A decision on the mission profile is delayed until mid-2026. Two ...

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 ...

Render of the Tianwen-2 near-Earth asteroid/comet orbiter spacecraft. Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — China will launch the Tianwen-2 mission to sample a near-Earth asteroid next year, an official with the ...

An independent review of NASA’s ambitious mission to return about half a kilogram of rocks and soil from the surface of Mars has found that the program is unworkable in its current form. NASA had been ...

NASA is seemingly caught between a Mars rock and a hard place. The space agency’s best-laid plan to robotically retrieve prized samples of the Red Planet for scrutiny back on Earth has been decades in ...

Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of ...