About a month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth while enclosed within a tight capsule. The sample canister was designed to keep the main chunk of the asteroid safe during its ...

Stool samples can help doctors diagnose some health conditions. Tips for collecting a stool sample include urinating before collecting the sample and using any tools that the sample kit provides.

Sample Containers are a rare item that is used to store alien samples in The Cycle: Frontier. Unlike most of the other items in the game, a Sample Container is not used in any printing recipe. It, ...

It took OSIRIS-REx years to reach the asteroid Bennu, scoop up a sample, and return it to Earth. While NASA scientists were anxious to get a look at the sample when the spacecraft dropped it off in ...

Apollo mission planners were really smart. Recognizing that future scientists will have better tools and richer scientific insights, they refrained from opening a portion of the lunar samples returned ...

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a ...