Sample Curation Laboratory News Today

The top has been popped on a stubborn piece of hardware holding precious asteroid samples brought back to Earth by a University of Arizona-led space mission.

For Star subscribers: Maybe try smacking it on the floor a few times? The lid still wont come off the asteroid sampler from the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission.

NASA reveals the first images of the asteroid material collected during the "picture-perfect" OSIRIS-REx mission led by the University of Arizona.

Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample should touch down Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and Training Range.

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday, Oct. 11, and media accreditation is now open.

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a pair of news conferences Tuesday, July 25, at the agencys Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotations

NASA will conduct news conferences on July 25 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to announce the upcoming crew rotations missions to the International Space Station (ISS)

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a pair of news conferences Tuesday, July 25, at the agencys Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew...

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a pair of news conferences Tuesday, July 25, at the agencys Johnson Space Center in Hous...

Ahead of the first asteroid sample collected by the U.S. arriving on Earth in September, media are invited on Monday, July 24, to meet mission scientists and see NASA’s newly-built OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Laboratory where the agency will study the