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According to NASA, this material serves as a time capsule from the earliest days of the solar system.

NASA was set on Wednesday to provide a first peek for the public at what scientists found inside a tightly sealed canister that was returned to Earth last month carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid. The material collected by the OSRIS-REx spacecraft three years ago from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu was to be unveiled at NASA's Johnston Space Center in Houston, a little more than two weeks after it was parachuted into the Utah desert. It was onl...

NASA is set to provide a first peek for the public at what scientists found inside a tightly sealed canister that was returned to Earth last month carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid.

The public will get a first look at the asteroid sample that was collected from Bennu and brought back to Earth on the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft last month.

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.

NASA has given the public a first glimpse of what scientists found inside a sealed capsule returned to Earth last month carrying the asteroid Bennu.

-NASA on Wednesday gave the public a first glimpse of what scientists found inside a tightly sealed capsule that was returned to Earth last month carrying a carbon-rich soil sample scooped from the... -October 11, 2023 at 02:21 pm EDT - MarketScreener

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.