An image taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft of its sampling head shows a cloud of material taken from the surface of asteroid Bennu leaking out of a small gap in the lid of the sampling mechanism.

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Rocks and soil collected from the asteroid Bennu and brought back to Earth last month by NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe are rich in carbon and contain water-bearing clay minerals that date back to the birth ...

Samples returned to Earth by a Japanese asteroid mission are the most untouched materials ever studied in the solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

FTIR microspectroscopy facilitates chemical analysis on small sample areas, but samples are not always small - the areas of interest may be small portions of large samples. It is not always possible ...