NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

When scientists finally cracked open the capsule from asteroid Bennu, they expected carbon, water-bearing minerals, and maybe ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After an initial fumble, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is on a ...

While the first NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) flight to the International Space Station is historic, the delivery and more importantly the return of science samples is pivotal. Since the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The powdery material that NASA officials unveiled on Wednesday ...

The ninth batch of space science experiment samples including four mice used in life-science tests returned by the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft from the China Space Station on Friday have been delivered to ...

Free samples of prescription drugs may seem like a great deal for patients. But even when doctors think they’re doing patients a favor by handing out the freebies, the real beneficiaries are the drug ...

Old military air samples turned out to be a treasure trove of biological DNA, allowing scientists to track moss spores over ...

When a curator from the Science Museum in London asked Deonie and Steve Allen whether they would like their work to be added to the museum’s permanent collection of artifacts, they jumped at the ...

A SpaceX capsule containing science samples from NASA's one-year space station resident approaches the Pacific Ocean, a few hundred miles off the Southern California coast, Wednesday, May 11, 2016. AP ...

Why did everything in the teeming oceans of the Late Devonian period (which ended about 358 million years ago) go extinct? Did Earth’s entire surface cool into a “snowball” at some point in prehistory ...

Biological samples can be highly susceptible to changes over time, which often occur when they are removed from deep refrigeration. Degraded samples can produce spurious results in research. To ...