Shipping biological and molecular samples comes with multiple complications. Important factors to consider include leak prevention, sample integrity, legal compliance, and protection from dry ice ...

This spherical container has been engineered to house the most scientifically valuable cargo imaginable: samples brought back from the Red Planet. Still probably many years in the future and most ...

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 ...

You’d think grabbing a scoop of dirt off an orbiting space rock and then delivering it back to Earth would be the most complicated part of an asteroid sample collection mission, but the real challenge ...

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 ...