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The pristine samples are believed to be leftover building blocks from the dawn of our solar system.

The spacecraft arrived in Utah Sunday, carrying material from the asteroid Bennu — and the dawn of the solar system.

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 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid samples were contained in a capsule that remained intact when it touched down, keeping it free of contamination.

The pristine samples are believed to be leftover building blocks from the dawn of our solar system.

The pristine samples are believed to be leftover building blocks from the dawn of our solar system.

NASA successfully completed the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid as they recovered the OSIRIS-REx sample capsule that landed Sunday at the Utah Test and Training Range.

The pristine samples are believed to be leftover building blocks from the dawn of our solar system.

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 capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid. […]

The pristine samples are believed to be leftover building blocks from the dawn of our solar system.