The material from Bennu could help us better understand the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps how asteroids helped seed our world with the ingredients for life.
Updated Sept. 24, 2023 6:11 pm ETA space capsule from NASA’s Osiris-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu landed in Utah on Sunday. The sample of rocks and dust—the largest ever collected from an asteroid—could help scientists better understand our solar system. Photo: NASA/EPA/Shutterstock
Mission controllers and scientists broke into whoops and applause Sunday as they watched an orange Creamsicle-colored parachute deploy above a capsule carrying the largest sample
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