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New US Postage Stamp Commemorates NASA's Asteroid Sample Delivery
OSIRIS-REx used a Tesla-esque navigation system to capture 4.5 billion-year-old regolith
By Andrew Tarantola
Origins of Life? We Now Have Up to 250 Grams of Bennu Dust. Here's What Happens Next.
Spacecraft drops cargo to Earth after plucking material from asteroid
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NASA asteroid sample parachutes safely onto Utah desert
By Steve Gorman & Maria Caspani
Asteroid named for Egyptian god of chaos and darkness set for spacecraft flyby
By Ashley Strickland
An asteroid treasure box lands on Earth on Sunday — and Canada will get a piece of it
By Nicole Mortillaro
OSIRIS-REx sample capsule lands in Utah
By Jeff Foust
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
NASA Asteroid Mission Captures Clues to Solar System's Past
By Jeffrey Kluger
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 asteroid sample that crashed to Earth: Canister holding debris from Bennu is co
By Stacy Liberatore
A long-awaited asteroid sample has landed in the US
By Ashley Strickland
An asteroid sample is about to land on Earth. Here’s what to expect
By Ashley Strickland
NASA ready for OSIRIS-REx sample return
By Jeff Foust
NASA capsule brings home asteroid samples dating back to the birth of the solar system
By William Harwood
NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft returns sample of asteroid to Earth
By Nell Greenfieldboyce
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission will return rock samples to Earth on Sunday.
By Nell Greenfieldboyce
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
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