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NASAs first mission to retrieve an asteroid sample and return it to U.S. soil is expected to reach a perilous finale, Sunday, with a descent into the Utah desert. Scientists hope the material -- possibly the most ever retrieved by such a mission -- will provide humanity with a better understanding on the formation of our solar system and how Earth became habitable.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is expected to land in the United States on Sunday carrying 250g of rock and dust from the surface of asteroid Bennu for scientific research.

Science News: NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will return to Earth this weekend, bringing back a sample collected from asteroid Bennu. This is the first time NASA has

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is expected to land in the United States on Sunday carrying 250g of rock and dust from the surface of asteroid Bennu for scientific research.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, carrying a sample of material from an asteroid, is set to make a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday. The mis

The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid.

NASA has announced that the agency's first asteroid sample it has collected in space will arrive on Earth before the end of this week.

NASA's Osiris-Rex is now preparing for its arrival with treats from Bennu. The famed mission of the NASA OSIRIS-REx is now coming to an end which is not because it is defunct or canceled, but because the spacecraft has completed its mission to retrieve asteroid samples from "Bennu.

Egypt has voiced anger after Ethiopia announced it had filled the reservoir at a highly controversial hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river.

The United States has experienced a record number of natural disasters with damage estimated at more than $1bn, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) reported,