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NASA scientists discover captured water and carbon-rich materials, the building blocks of life, in early analysis of Bennu asteroid sample from the Osirus-Rex mission.

A 2008 graduate of Fountain Hills High School, Eric Sahr was doing post graduate study at University of Arizona in 2016 when he was given the opportunity to sign on

A capsule was delivered back to Earth on Sunday after a 4 billion mile trip that included grabbing a sample of dust and rocks from an asteroid called Bennu.

A capsule of material from the Bennu asteroid successfully landed in the desert near Dugway, Utah, on Sunday and was retrieved by NASA as part of the OSIRIS-REx mission. Learn more.

The capsule containing the sample was recovered by helicopter from the Utah desert.

Scientists will analyse the asteroid sample to investigate the origins of life on Earth.

The largest haul of extraterrestrial samples since Apollo 17 landed in Utah on Sept. 24 after being collected by the Osiris-REx spacecraft.

A mission to bring samples from a distant asteroid back to Earth made history on Sunday with the success of NASA's OSIRIS-Rex.

Asteroid Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid that is being studied by NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission. Bennu is a primitive asteroid that may contain organic molecules that could have been involved in the origin of life on Earth. Scientists are also interested

NASA built a custom lab to study the Bennu sample and has an extensive team of scientists, and decades of experience, researching samples gathered from the cosmos.