The once inaccessible sample container has been fully opened, and NASA has released the numbers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

After a 500 million mile journey, a piece of the asteroid Bennu is now on display at the Smithsonian. But how did it get here? Ellyn Lapointe The Smithsonian is the first institution to display a ...

The largest sample returned from an asteroid could contain insights into our solar system's past and the origin of life on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Japan’s space agency JAXA has opened the space probe Hayabusa2’s recently-returned sample capsule and found that the mission did succeed in collecting material from the asteroid Ryugu. It also ...