Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid material, ...

Second time's the charm. Sample tube 266 contains the rover's first rock, which NASA hopes to bring back to Earth on future missions for further study. Reading time 2 minutes For the Perseverance Mars ...

For the first time in U.S. history, samples from an asteroid in deep space that were captured by NASA fell to Earth and landed in the Utah desert on Sunday, ending a seven-year journey. The Osiris-Rex ...

This photo taken on June 25, 2024, shows the retrieval site of the return capsule of the Chang’e-6 probe in Siziwang Banner, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Xinhua/Jin Liwang A Chinese ...

A robot tasked with navigating the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has successfully retrieved a small sample of melted nuclear fuel, marking a crucial step in Japan's journey toward ...

BELCHERTOWN, Mass. (WWLP) – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) has announced that the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus has been detected for the first time this year in the ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever has ...