"OSIRIS-REx has been so successful because we continue to pay attention to the details." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's the ...

A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu — leftovers from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago — is expected to ...

For the most part, commercial samples have entered the U.S. duty-free. Will that continue? Low-dollar shipments from overseas are about to get more expensive. The days are ticking down until the de ...

NASA has revealed where samples collected on Mars will be handled once they make it back to Earth. The space agency just announced the launch of its Mars Sample Receiving Project office at Johnson ...

Meet the 10-foot-tall (3 meters) Mars Ascent Vehicle. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Work is progressing on a vital part of NASA ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off. This week. the spacecraft performed a ...

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Scientists are exulting over the safe arrival of a canister containing about a cup's worth of asteroid rocks, collected 200 million miles away, that landed in a Utah desert after a 7-year NASA mission ...

Low-dollar shipments from overseas are about to get more expensive. The days are ticking down until the de minimis exemption for customs duties expires as part of President Trump’s global tariff ...