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(CNN) — A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed.

Samples of asteroid Bennu delivered by the OSIRIS-REx mission include carbon, water and other ingredients of the primordial Solar System. Samples of asteroid Bennu delivered by the OSIRIS-REx mission include carbon, water and other ingredients of the primordial Solar System.

/PRNewswire/ -- Following a public unveiling of the United States first asteroid sample at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 11, NASA will host a media...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected valuable samples, but a new report says the plan to fetch them is unworkable

David W. Brown writes about the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect material from an asteroid that could help us learn more about the origins of life on Earth.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected valuable samples, but a new report says the plan to fetch them is unworkable. NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected valuable samples, but a new report says the plan to fetch them is unworkable.

The OSIRIS-REx mission is expected to shed new light on the nature and history of the solar system’s oldest building blocks

Samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission excite scientists with their potential to reveal secrets of the Solar System. Samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission excite scientists with their potential to reveal secrets of the Solar System.

The samples will be flown Monday morning to a new lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday, Oct. 11, and media accreditation is now open.