NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.

A NASA spacecraft brought samples from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth in 2023. The first in-depth analyses of that material have revealed organic molecules, including building blocks of life ...

China launches Tianwen-2 probe to asteroid 2016 HO3 near Mars to collect samples, aiming for groundbreaking results in space exploration and Earth formation clues.

In-store samples increase sales, both in the immediate and extended time frame. Sampling drives sharper and more sustained sales than end-of-aisle displays. If incremental cost of a sampling event ...

Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says By Sandee LaMotte, CNN 8 min read Updated 12:29 PM EST, Mon February 3, 2025 ...

Amazingly, the samples of material from the moon retrieved by the Apollo missions are still providing new insights more than 50 years later, in this case how tiny glass beads that litter the lunar ...