Scientific Samples
Explore our collection of scientific samples collection, real specimens from history and space missions like lunar, Mars, or asteroidal material, preserved for study and wonder. Perfect for collectors, students, or anyone who wants a tangible connection to the universe’s frontier.
Space & Beyond Box Exoplanets Collection
Take a trip outside of our solar system to explore exoplanets with the products in the Space & Beyond Box. Study with an exoplanet globe, flashcards, t-shirt, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Exoplanets Edition - Explore...
$49.95
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Space & Beyond Box Nebulae Collection
Tour the nebulae with the products in this Space & Beyond Box. Explore their wonder and beauty with flashcards, a crystal model, a mug, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Nebulae Edition - Explore the many kinds of...
$49.95
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Jezero Crater Regolith
Get your hands on simulant of the Jezero Crater! Engineered to be chemically and mechanically identical to soil in the crater where Perseverance touched down in February 2021, this regolith is a mixture of dust, soil, broken rock, and other organic materials.
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Space & Beyond Box - Solar System Collection
Take a trip through the solar system with the Solar System Collection. Study the solar system with an exclusive Pluto globe, a book that will guide you through the night sky, and much more.Contents of this box include: Space Particles:...
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Space & Beyond Box - Mars Collection
This Space & Beyond Box includes items related to Mars, the Red Planet. Get hands on with a custom globe, a 3D topographic map, and a Mars atlas!Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Mars Edition - In this issue,...
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Space & Beyond Box - Milky Way Collection
Explore the Milky Way! Learn about galaxies with a Milky Way globe, flashcards, a poster, and more. Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Milky Way Galaxy Edition - Explore how planets get their water, the affect of exploding stars...
$49.95
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Space & Beyond Box - Jupiter Collection
This Space & Beyond Box includes items related to Jupiter, the king of the planets. Get hands on with a custom globe, an planetary notebook, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Jupiter Edition - Dive Deeper into...
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Space & Beyond Box - Stars Collection
Get ready to explore the stars with this this Space & Beyond Box that includes a unique globe of the sun, constellations rocks glass, James Webb telescope pin, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Stars Edition -...
$49.95
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Moon Dust Vial
Moon Dust Vial If you look at the Moon through a telescope, you will immediately notice that much of its surface is covered by craters. Some of these may be volcanic in origin, but many or most are meteorite craters...
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Solar System Mineral Kit
Explore moons and planets through exciting mineral specimens! This Astronomy magazine exclusive Solar System Mineral Kit, created by the editors at Astronomy magazine, is the ideal way to introduce students and astronomy enthusiasts to earthly minerals that represent the planets, moons, and asteroids...
$74.95
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Lunar Highlands Specimen
The Moon may be thousands of miles away, but a small piece is available with the Lunar Highlands Classic Riker Box Specimen. This lunar dust material is acquired from the lunar meteorite NWA 5000 and hand crafted into a Moon...
$69.00
Triceratops Bone
Triceratops lived during the Cretaceous period and were prevalent in South Dakota in the Hell Creek Formation. This specimen derives from this same location. Triceratops belonged to the Ceratopsids family which meant they were quadrupeds with bony frills, horns, and...
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Tantalum Element Round - 1g
Named after the Greek god Tantalus, Tantalum is a rare, blue gray transition metal that is highly corrosion resistant. It is in the refractory metals group since it is highly resistant to heat and water. Tantalum is a technology critical...
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Tellurium Element Round - 1g
Tellurium is a rare, silver white element that is also mildly toxic. Its primary use is copper and steel alloys where it can improve machinability. Since it is used in solar panels and semiconductors it is considered a technology critical...
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Titanium Element Round - 1g
Titanium has grown in popularity due to its excellent properties. Light, strong and corrosion resistant, titanium is the luxury version of steel. Titanium has become the gold standard for metal products that are presented as high end and high tech. ...
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Indium Element Round - 3g
Indium is one of the softest metals and is named after the indigo blue line in its spectrum. It is considered a technology critical element since it is critical in the establishment of modern technologies. It is one of the...
$7.00
$4.20
Insect in Baltic Amber
Imagine being trapped in amber for 40,000,000 to 60,000,000 years! Each sample of these insects trapped in amber displays an insect that was captured from a treasure trove of fossilized insects from the Baltic Sea. Dating back to the Eocene...
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Gadolinium Element Round - 3g
Gadolinium is a silvery white metal and is found in nature only in its oxidized form. It possesses unusual metallurgical properties and as a metal absorbs neutrons, which is sometimes used to shield neutron radiography. It is too reactive to...
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Zinc Element Round - 3g
Zinc is a hard and brittle metal at most temperatures and has a bluish white coloring. It is part of many alloys including brass, aluminum, gold iron and many more. Zinc is important to the human body as well as...
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Libyan Desert Glass
Formed from an asteroid or comet airburst explosion hitting silica-rich sands, these specimens of Libyan Desert Glass date back roughly 28,500,000 years. Each glass sample is derived from the southeastern spur of Africa’s Great Sand Sea and is yellow green...
$29.00
Apatosaurus Bone - Classic Riker Display Case Fragment
With a massive neck to reach the trees and a huge body to roam the land, the Apatosaurus was an incredible dinosaur. This creature lived 150,000,000 years ago during the Jurassic Period and has become one of the most iconic...
$29.00
Dinosaur Dung (Coprolite) - Classic Riker Box Specimen
This specimen is a fragment of agatized coprolite from the Morrison Formation in Utah. It is attributed to a 150,000,000 year old sauropod, a long necked herbivorous dinosaur. Both small and large sized specimens are available with more sizing information...
$19.00
Iron Element Round
Iron is the most common element on Earth and forms much of the Earth’s outer and inner core. It is also found in Earth’s crust but requires kilns or furnaces for extraction. It is used in the modern world as...
$5.00
Otodus Fossil Tooth - First Megatooth Shark
During the Paleocene Epoch, the Megatoothed sharks emerged as apex predators, dominating the seas for nearly 60,000,000 years. Otodus obliquus was the first of these giant ocean predators, with vertebrae over 5 inches in diameter, and an estimated body length...
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Tin Element Round
Tin has a silvery color and is soft enough to be cut with little force. When combined with copper it can create bronze as well as create pewter when combined with different elements. Tin is used commonly for food packaging...
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Dinosaur Food - Cycad Fossil
"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." [Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are]. -Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie Du Gout, ou, Méditations de Gastronomie Transcendante (1826) The palm-shaped fronds of the Cycad...
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Space & Beyond Box - Eclipse Collection
This Space & Beyond Box includes items to help you commemorate and experience the upcoming eclipse on April 8, 2024. Plan for the the eclipse with a complete guide, wraparound glasses, maps, and more! Contents of this box include: Space...
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Sulfur Element Round - Filled Container
Sulfur is a bright yellow element and is crystalline solid at room temperature. Sulfur is prevalent in Earth and usually occurs as sulfide and sulfate minerals. It is also referred to as brimstone and its greatest commercial use is in...
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Space Blanket
The Mylar space blanket was developed by NASA to reduce heat loss for spacecraft as well as humans. The material is a thin sheet of plastic that’s been coated with an atomically thin metallic layer. The result is an extremely...
$4.00
Ammonite
Ammonites are an extinct group of cephalopods that entered the fossil record 400 million years ago. They survived several mass extinction events, including the Permian–Triassic "Great Dying" which wiped out 96% of all marine species. They finally succumbed during the...
$19.00
Space Shuttle Challenger - Flown LRSI Tile Fragment
The Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was the second of the space shuttles in the program to enter orbit, embarking on its maiden voyage on April 4, 1983. Over the course of its ten missions, the shuttle gathered scientific data, repaired satellites, and...
$89.00
Dinosaur Eggshell
This specimen is a fragment of Hypselosaurus eggshell from the Provence region of southern France. Recent studies suggest that the sauropod may have been a "small" titanosaur, measuring perhaps 12m (40ft) in length in adulthood. The specimen comes inside a...
$29.00
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 34 Firebrick
The first step on humanity’s grand journey across the stars sits on a small sliver of land off the coast of Florida. Here on Cape Canaveral, the first Saturn rocket launches blasted off from NASA's Launch Complex 34, paving the...
$99.00
First Supercomputer Cray-1
"There's something about the speed of light; It's just hard to get around." ~ Seymour Cray This item includes a small section of an original Cray-1 Module Board. We also have an alternate version that includes an IC Chip (see details...
$29.00
Pterosaur Tooth - Classic Riker Box Specimens
This specimen is an individual Pterosaur tooth. It comes from the Kem Kem beds of Morocco and is associated with Coloborhynchus, a Pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous with an estimated wingspan of 5m (15ft). Pterosaur Tooth Sizing: Small - 1.5 cm and...
$39.00
NASA Skylab Computer Program Section
This section of data tape contains the automated commands for the X-ray spectrographic telescope on Skylab. With this program, NASA ground control was able to guide its operations, data collection, and alignment for solar observation. About Skylab Skylab, the United...
$48.00
Allosaurus Vertebra
With its iconic skull "hornlets," Allosaurus struck a unique and intimidating figure when compared to other carnivorous dinosaurs. This bipedal predator lived during the Late Jurassic, over 145,000,000 years ago, and used its powerful bite to take down prey in...
$29.00
Rainbow Fossil Ammolite - Gem Quality Ammonite Fossil Fragment
Please Note: ALL ammolite specimens will exhibit multiple colors depending on the angle of the light. The color choices reflect the dominant color of each piece. Ammonites are an extinct group of cephalopods that entered the fossil record 400 million years ago. They...
$59.00
Petrified Lightning - Saharan Fulgurite Riker Box Specimen
When lightning strikes dry sand, the intense heat melts and fuses the silica creating tubes of rough glass called fulgurites. The process happens quickly, often trapping molecules from the surrounding atmosphere inside the walls of the impact tube. These natural...
$19.00
Ancient Oceans - 4-in-1 Fossil Specimen Collection
When life first appeared in the world's oceans, it did so in a minuscule form we would hardly recognize, as tiny photosynthetic bacteria struggling for existence. Billions of years later, during the Cambrian Period, life blossomed in diversity with fish,...
$39.00
Space Shuttle Columbia - Flown Nose Landing Gear Tire
This specimen comes from a mission-flown, Space Shuttle nose landing gear tire which was removed from service after the Space Shuttle Columbia's 13th mission, STS-52. The specimen is encased in an acrylic specimen jar and housed in a 4"...
$29.00
The Red Planet Resorts Gift Card
Give the gift of a trip to Mars! With this gift card, the recipient will be able to buy their ticket to Mars with shipping covered. What better gift for a space lover than a 26-Month adventure!? Upgrade your gift...
$45.00
NASA Explorer 7 Satellite Telemetry Data Section
This strip of magnetic tape includes a portion of raw telemetry data for the Explorer 7 satellite. This listing is for a section of tape in an acrylic case that was cut from a larger spool recorded in October 1959. In 1955,...
$44.00
Pachycephalosaurus Dome Fragment
Pachycephalosaurus was a Late Cretaceous dinosaur with a unique feature: its skull had a battering ram like bone plate. This several inch thick helmet of bone allowed it to absorb blunt force when it struck its head against surfaces. This...
$29.00
Fossil White Shark Tooth
The Great White Shark: an apex predator known around the world that dominates the ocean with its ferocity. This species has existed for millions of years and evolved into a deadly hunter as it spread through the global seas. It...
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Silicon 50mm Lucite Cube
Deep gray and super lustrous, these crystals are grown for use in the semiconductor industry. Their texture is like that of obsidian but their color is more like that of mercury - an irresistibly beautiful combination. Monocrystalline silicon is the...
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Apollo 14 Moon Tree
On January 31, 1971, Apollo 14 carried three astronauts to the moon along with hundreds of tree seeds. Upon return, the U.S. forest service successfully germinated a small number of seeds and dispersed the saplings during the bicentennial celebrations of...
$29.00
Particle Accelerator Beam Steering Magnet
This is one of four beam-steering magnets from the renowned Aladdin electron storage ring, a synchrotron particle accelerator. From the 1980s until 2014, this machine produced synchrotron radiation for high-energy physics experiments. Aladdin was housed at the Synchrotron Radiation Center...
$15,550.00
Apollo 11 Command Module Foil - 1 Square Centimeter
This specimen is an actual, mission-flown fragment of kapton foil from the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia. This material helped protect Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their journey from Earth to the Moon and back. Salvaged...
$6,900.00
Apollo 13 Command Module Foil - 1 Square Centimeter
About the Apollo 13 Command Module Foil Specimen This specimen is a fragment of mission-flown kapton foil which provided thermal protection for the astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 Command Module. The specimen measures approximately 1cm x 1cm and is enclosed in...
$6,900.00