When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Measures taken in the current Ebola outbreak may hold some clues for how to handle samples ...

Japan’s space agency JAXA has opened the space probe Hayabusa2’s recently-returned sample capsule and found that the mission did succeed in collecting material from the asteroid Ryugu. It also ...

Lunar impact glass becomes a mighty mountain in new 'Nanocosmos: Journeys in Electron Space' images (exclusive) ...

ESA has awarded Airbus a €491 million (US$522 million) contract to design and build the Earth Return Orbiter, which will return the first samples collected from the Red Planet by NASA's Perseverance ...

ESA plans to award a contract to Airbus Defence and Space, partnered with Thales Alenia Space, to build the Earth Return Orbiter mission to bring back samples of Mars to Earth. Credit: Airbus ...

Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to date. And, with the Mars Sample Return mission on the horizon, Lockheed ...

The revised Mars Sample Return strategy does away with a "fetch rover" and its lander, relying instead on the Perseverance rover and helicopters based on Ingenuity. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA and ...

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 ...

Andrew McCalip, who works on space manufacturing at Varda Space, has had the most public and possibly first replication of the proposed LK99 superconductor in the United States has made new samples.

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 ...

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 ...