Sample Containers are a rare item that is used to store alien samples in The Cycle: Frontier. Unlike most of the other items in the game, a Sample Container is not used in any printing recipe. It, ...

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 ...

The once inaccessible sample container has been fully opened, and NASA has released the numbers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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 ...

Apollo mission planners were really smart. Recognizing that future scientists will have better tools and richer scientific insights, they refrained from opening a portion of the lunar samples returned ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container (ALSRC) was an aluminum box with a triple seal. It was used on Apollo lunar ...

NASA revealed its OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample earlier this month as planned, but something was missing. We got preliminary material analysis and images of the cosmic pebbles scattered around the top of ...