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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 only the third asteroid sample, and by far the biggest, ever returned to Earth for analysis, following ...

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.