When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Between 1969 and 1972, Apollo astronauts brought back to Earth a total of nine containers of moon ...

About a month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth while enclosed within a tight capsule. The sample canister was designed to keep the main chunk of the asteroid safe during its ...

You’d think grabbing a scoop of dirt off an orbiting space rock and then delivering it back to Earth would be the most complicated part of an asteroid sample collection mission, but the real challenge ...

NASA has collected a small amount of the rock and dust sample that its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought back from the asteroid Bennu. However, it is having a bit of trouble accessing the rest. That's ...

The space agency has been struggling with two pesky fasteners that, for months, stood in the way of the precious Bennu sample. Reading time 3 minutes After months of fidgeting with a canister that ...

NASA revealed its OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample earlier this month as planned, but something was missing. We got preliminary material analysis and images of the cosmic pebbles scattered around the top of ...

NASA scientists successfully brought an asteroid sample back to Earth in September, making them the first U.S. space agency to do so. All they have to do now is figure out how to open the Touch-and-Go ...

Between 1969 and 1972, Apollo astronauts brought back to Earth a total of nine containers of moon material that were sealed on the lunar surface. Two of the larger sealed samples were collected by ...