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A solid sample material has to always be sufficiently prepared by homogenization and size reduction before exposure to physical or chemical analysis. Care should be taken that the analysis sample ...

NASA has collected a small amount of the rock and dust sample that its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought back from the asteroid Bennu. However, it is having a bit of trouble accessing the rest. That's ...

The space agency has been struggling with two pesky fasteners that, for months, stood in the way of the precious Bennu sample. Reading time 3 minutes After months of fidgeting with a canister that ...

NASA revealed its OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample earlier this month as planned, but something was missing. We got preliminary material analysis and images of the cosmic pebbles scattered around the top of ...

Between 1969 and 1972, Apollo astronauts brought back to Earth a total of nine containers of moon material that were sealed on the lunar surface. Two of the larger sealed samples were collected by ...