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Extraterrestrial rocks and dust – material scooped up from an asteroid – are scheduled to be delivered to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. A safe landing in the

NASA recently landed a capsule on Earth containing samples from asteroid billions of miles away, and now scientists have finally opened it.

Brian May has once again proven why he is rock royalty. Not only is he the Queen guitarist, but he is also an astrophysicist who helped NASA return an asteroid sample to Earth.

A Lancaster County company helped NASA complete a historic outer space mission.

Technology from Mountain View's NASA Ames Research Center helped bring the first ever asteroid sample to Earth.

A capsule carrying a sample of rocks and dust from an asteroid landed successfully in the Utah desert Sunday morning and a Colorado team helped make it possible.

Although its main mission is now complete, the journey of OSIRIS-REx is only half-done as NASA re-routes it to study near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis.

Initiated in 2016 and reaching asteroid Bennu in 2018, NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft embarked on an ambitious mission: to gather a sample of asteroid rocks and soil. The pinnacle of this mission was reached in 2020 when the spacecraft successfully collected the sample.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out.