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OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Lands in the Utah Desert
An asteroid treasure box lands on Earth on Sunday — and Canada will get a piece of it
By Nicole Mortillaro
Origins of Life? We Now Have Up to 250 Grams of Bennu Dust. Here's What Happens Next.
Asteroid ‘dust, debris’ likely found as returned NASA space capsule opened
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Asteroid named for Egyptian god of chaos and darkness set for spacecraft flyby
By Ashley Strickland
Sample of Empire State Building-sized asteroid set to crash down in Utah desert
By Jon Michael Raasch
NASA has landed its first asteroid rocks from space
By Elisha Sauers
OSIRIS-REx sample capsule lands in Utah
By Jeff Foust
NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule returns to Earth with a sample from the 'potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu
By Ben Turner
Mysterious black dust found on NASA's Bennu asteroid sample
By Stacy Liberatore
NASA delivers bounty of asteroid samples to Earth
By Paul Voosen
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission will return rock samples to Earth on Sunday.
By Nell Greenfieldboyce
7 years, billions of kilometres, a handful of dust: NASA just brought back the largest-ever asteroid sample
By Nick E. Timms & Eleanor K. Sansom
A long-awaited asteroid sample has landed in the US
By Ashley Strickland
NASA ready for OSIRIS-REx sample return
By Jeff Foust
Osiris-Rex: NASA returns sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth
By Samuel Osborne
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivers asteroid Bennu sample to Earth
By Joel Achenbach
NASA's OSIRIS-REx to bring parts of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sunday - The Washington Post
By Joel Achenbach
After NASA's epic OSIRIS-REx capsule landing success, spacecraft heads to asteroid Apophis on new mission
By Andrew Jones
NASA's OSIRIS-REx lands samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth after historic 4-billion-mile journey
By Brett Tingley
‘A treasure for scientific analysis’: Nasa holds Bennu asteroid sample press conference – as it happened
By Nicola Davis
‘Like a dream’: successful return of Nasa capsule with asteroid sample hailed
By Nicola Davis & Maya Yang
A NASA asteroid sample just landed on Earth. It holds clues about the origins of life.
By Ellen Ioanes