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Researchers have found all five of the essential bases that make up DNA and RNA in samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu.

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 – ...

HOUSTON (KTVX) — If you can get a scientist to say “wow,” then you’re in pretty impressive territory. According to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid researchers, they’ve been saying “wow” quite a bit since ...

For the first time, NASA-funded researchers can apply for access to lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e-5 mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA revealed Wednesday that newly returned samples from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid contain traces of carbon and water — molecules that are thought to make up the building blocks of life.

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 ...

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A capsule containing precious samples from an asteroid landed safely on Earth on Sunday, the culmination of a roughly 4-billion-mile journey over the past seven years. Subscribe to read this story ...

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 ...