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NASA reveals the contents of a cannister returned from 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu - explaining it contains "the building blocks" of life on Earth. Scientists outline the unprecedented nature of the discoveries - and why any return to the space object would be bad news for mankind.

NASA scientists revealed the initial findings of the first U.S. asteroid sample mission, including carbon and water-based clay materials, from the Johnson Space Center in Houston Wednesday morning.

NASA reveals the first images of the asteroid material collected during the "picture-perfect" OSIRIS-REx mission led by the University of Arizona.

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

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.

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."

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.

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Test centers within the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) have supported the American space mission since its inception.