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A space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped from the surface of an asteroid has streaked through Earth's atmosphere and...

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 pebbles and dust delivered Sunday represent the biggest haul from beyond the moon. Preserved building blocks from the dawn of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago, the samples will help scientists better understand how Earth and life formed.

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.

NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

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