But these old rocks were one of the rarest minerals found on Earth. Until the discovery, only about a snowball-sized amount ...

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After Tianwen-2 launches Wednesday afternoon, it will rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid, then send samples to Earth before setting out to meet with a distant comet.

Soil samples from the far side of the moon suggest the little-known, distant face of our natural satellite is much drier than the side that faces Earth, according to a new analysis.

The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential for genetic information storage and transmission.

A sample from a primitive asteroid that was parachuted into Utah's West Desert in 2023 revealed the building blocks of life, scientists announced.

After those samples arrived on Sept. 24, 2023, we got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth.

Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA Studies of the pristine asteroid sample material returned to Earth by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life.

THIS AFTERNOON, NASA ANNOUNCED TWO NEW “POSSIBLE” APPROACHES TO BRINGING AT LEAST SOME OF THESE SAMPLES HOME TO EARTH.

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.