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The nation's first-ever asteroid samples were shown off at NASA's Johnson Space Center on Wednesday.

The samples hold chemical clues to the formation of our solar system—and the origin of life-supporting stuff on our planet.

Water-bearing clays found in rocks from the asteroid Bennu support theories about how water may have made it to Earth in the distant past.

Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content and

(NEW YORK) — NASA revealed on Wednesday that “the building blocks of life on Earth” may have been found in an asteroid sample collected from space. The preliminary analysis of the contents of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security — Regolith Explorer) […]

The initial results of studies of samples collected from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid were unveiled by NASA on Wednesday.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has collected samples from Bennu -- a 4.5 billion-year-old "near-Earth" asteroid that has a slight chance of a planetary collision 159 years from now -- and they could show, as the agency described it, "the building blocks of life on Earth."

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.

This fall, NASA is all about asteroids. OSIRIS-REx's brought samples from Bennu; Psyche will visit a space rock; and the Lucy spacecraft will fly by an asteroid.

This fall, NASA marks milestones in three different missions that explore unanswered questions about the process that made Earth, the stuff that makes the solar system and how we might save ourselves should a much larger space rock come hurtling our way.