Please do not put your asteroid samples in an airplane's overhead bins. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Collecting rocks from an ...

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NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials.

On day one of this administration, the president included his ambitions for Mars in his inaugural address, and again several weeks later to a joint session of Congress: “We are going to conquer the ...

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 ...

Good afternoon and welcome. I am pleased to be here today with members of the authoring committee to publicly release this new National Research Council report, The Quarantine and Certification of ...

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An image from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows where the rover drilled into a rock called Rochette and collected two samples. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover ...

The Perseverance rover has outdone itself this week, collecting not one but two samples of Martian rock for analysis. Now, NASA scientists have revealed what these samples can tell us about the ...

Scientists waited 50 years to open an Apollo time capsule from the moon. In December 1972, astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison “Jack” Schmitt collected rocks and gases that had been buried around 2 ...