China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

There, curators will carefully disassemble the container and begin analysing ... hoovered up so much material that pieces of rock got jammed in the collection mechanism, allowing some of the ...

Dredged rock material in the Collection dates from the early part of the 1900s. The Collection has slowly evolved from individual bags of rock to thousands of wooden storage boxes full of rock, housed ...