OSIRIS-REx brought back 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought back 121.6 grams of material from asteroid Bennu -- doubling the sample return goal, NASA has announced.Rocky material -- dust and pebbles -- collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu in 2020 was brought ...

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