VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The best time of day to collect a wastewater sample is in the morning. That's according to Raul Gonzalez, an environmental scientist who's an expert on how people's hygiene ...

An artist's conception of the fetch rover approaching a sample collection tube. Editor at Large For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars ...

Second time's the charm. Sample tube 266 contains the rover's first rock, which NASA hopes to bring back to Earth on future missions for further study. Reading time 2 minutes For the Perseverance Mars ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid material, ...

Each second of the capsule's descent has been calculated in anticipation for NASA's first asteroid sample return mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

There’s nothing like a good sampler platter. You get a little bit of everything without committing to a whole plate of gut-busting hot wings or risking it all on the jalapeño poppers. Both scenarios ...