NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an asteroid ...

A project at Duke University has developed a new microscope platform that can acquire extremely large, high-resolution pictures of non-flat objects in a single snapshot. Described in Optics Letters, ...

TRS offers a robust solution for analyzing heterogeneous samples, providing comprehensive spectral data essential for ...

Look carefully at this new image taken just days ago on Mars, and you might mistake that object sitting on the dusty barren surface as… wait, is that a lightsaber? The rover hasn't gotten clumsy. The ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. In a ...

"These samples are the reason why our mission was flown." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Vital samples from a dried up lakebed ...