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 ...

Atmospheric scientists get a little more excited with every rock core NASA's Perseverance Mars rover seals in its titanium sample tubes, which are being gathered for eventual delivery to Earth as ...

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The next stop for the material was the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, which distributed samples to researchers across the globe. Ever since, scientists have been fussing over every pebble ...