On February 22, 2019, the Hayabusa2 mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) collected samples of rock and dust from the surface of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, but it has […]
The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, is NASA’s first mission to return a sample from an asteroid. On October 20, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched […]
Previous age-dating evidence from Earth and lunar samples and the interpreted age of craters on the Moon suggest that the inner solar system experienced a period of intense meteorite impacts […]
From: Lori S. Glaze, NASA Planetary Science Division Director NASA is pleased to announce that the application deadline for the Science Mission Directorate’s Mars Sample Return Program Director will be extended […]
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft, operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), has been in orbit around 162173 Ryugu, a C or Cg class (carbonaceous) asteroid, since June 2018. After more […]
The heat probe aboard NASA’s InSight Mars lander was supposed to dig 3 to 5 meters (10 to 16 feet) into the Martian soil, using a self-hammering tool. However, shortly […]
The LPI/JSC Joint Working Group announces the fourth hands-on training in the handling and manipulation of small extraterrestrial samples that will be held at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, […]
Researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) measured water content and hydrogen isotopic composition of samples of the asteroid Itokawa, returned to Earth by the Hayabusa spacecraft. This study, led by […]
On April 25, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) confirmed that Hayabusa2 successfully created an artificial crater on asteroid Ryugu. Three weeks earlier, JAXA separated the SCI (Small Carry-on Impactor) from the […]
A drill originally developed to work in the low-gravity environment of Mars will help retrieve Antarctic bedrock samples with the aim of understanding the continent’s climate history. Researchers from the […]
New abstract deadline: February 5, 2018, 5 pm CST The 2nd International Mars Sample Return Conference is scheduled to take place over 2.5 days from April 25-27, 2018, in Berlin, […]
This conference is scheduled to take place over 2.5 days from April 25-27, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The purpose of this conference is to establish a better understanding of the […]
Dear Colleague, Past, present, and future sample scientists: You are invited to join the 2nd Annual Workshop on Potential Mars Returned Sample Science. This workshop will be held immediately before […]
This NPP (NASA Postdoctoral Program) position provides an opportunity to work with the FINESSE (Field Investigations to Enable Solar System Science and Exploration) team based at NASA Ames Research Center […]