It’s often referred to as the ‘doomsday asteroid ’, but that hasn’t stopped NASA from exploring the Bennu space rock. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the space rock back in December 2018, and ...

NASA has been waiting six months for Perseverance to collect its inaugural Mars core samples, but the American space Agency will have to wait a little longer after the rover failed during its first ...

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...

China has launched a probe to collect samples from the far side of the Moon, a world first as Beijing pushes ahead with an ambitious programme that aims to send a crewed lunar mission by 2030. A ...

Collecting samples from a rotating rock in space that’s travelling at 150,000mph while spewing chunks of ice, rock and dust is a tall order, but Nasa think they have a neat solution – a harpoon.

On Tuesday Nasa will broadcast one of its spacecrafts attempting to collect asteroid samples to study back on Earth. The journey, which has only been achieved by Japan so far, will unfold on Nasa ...

In a breakthrough proof-of-concept test, scientists have managed to take human DNA samples from the air, which could have applications in forensic investigations. Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an ...

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