Before the Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully collected two samples from Ryugu—a carbon-rich asteroid that orbits the sun ...

NASA has finally shared details about the first analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu using the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020. While NASA scientists are still working on documenting the ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have been found to contain all five nucleobases, adding to evidence that life’s building blocks exist elsewhere in the solar system. The ...

In a competitive industry, PerkinElmer increases productivity in pharmaceutical laboratories and improves sample analysis throughput by completing two analytical techniques at the same time. The Pyris ...

Early analysis of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed dust rich in carbon, nitrogen, and organic compounds, all of which are essential components for life as ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth. As part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the ...

Four principal methods govern the preparation of samples for XRF analysis, each representing a different trade-off between analytical quality and speed/cost of preparation. A method involving the ...

Yet in mining labs around the world, primary sample crushing still comes with a host of headaches: abrasive materials wear down equipment far too early, maintenance shutdowns delay critical analytical ...

Lentinan is a bioactive polysaccharide extracted from shiitake mushrooms and renowned for its immunomodulatory effects. It is ...