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A brown-and-white capsule that spent the last seven years swooping through the solar system — and sojourning at an asteroid — has finally come home

After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.

It might have been a scene from a science fiction movie. Helicopters converging on an object fallen from outer space into a stark, desert landscape. People in

NASA announced that the capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is now safe and secure.

It's the nail-biting end of an ambitious mission.

A brown and white spacecraft that swooped across the solar system and stayed on an asteroid for seven years has returned to Earth. And it's brought back a space rock memento that scientists can't wait to study.They watched the pod speed through Earth's atmosphere at thousands of kilometres per hour on Sunday morning with bated breath. At 8:52 a.m. local time, it softly parachuted down onto the moist desert environment of the Utah Test and Training Range, which is located around 80...

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

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsu

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The asteroid sample successfully delivered to Earth seven years after its launch in 2016