NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been circling the primitive asteroid Bennu for more than a year now, with mission control gearing up for its sample collection maneuver later this year. The unmanned ...

An automated droplet-based surface sampling probe can help a surgeon to determine whether a patient's tissue is cancerous - while that patient is still on the operating table. Researchers from the ...

NASA's first-ever asteroid-sampling operation apparently went a little too well. The agency's OSIRIS-REx probe snagged so much dirt and rock from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu on ...

And that sample looks pretty big. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's pioneering OSIRIS-REx probe has bagged up its precious ...

The ISA76 standards committee, Composition Analyzers, has undertaken a first step in the process of creating a possible new standard or modifying an existing industry standard for the safe design of ...

And that sample looks pretty big. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, ...