After a yearlong flight of a billion kilometers, a Chinese space probe is set to take samples from an asteroid. The mission ...

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released the sample capsule ...

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases a capsule with material from asteroid Bennu onto the Utah desert on Sept. 24, it will become the latest in a line of missions to gather samples from space ...

Samples of micro organisms, antibodies, fluorescent dyes and rock from Devon are amongst a European payload which will be sent into near Earth orbit this week onboard an unmanned Russian spacecraft – ...

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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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 ...

NASA has succeeded in bringing back to Earth a capsule containing samples gathered from an asteroid — a first for the space agency. The sample return capsule (SRC) from the OSIRIS-REx mission landed ...

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 ...

NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars in the 2030s. The mission would represent the first time scientific samples from another planet have been returned to Earth ...