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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 kilometres) out. the small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid. scientists estimate the capsule holds at least a cup of rubble from the carbon-rich asteroid known as bennu, but won’t know for sure until th

After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.

A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid has streaked through Earth's atmosphere and parachuted into the Utah desert, delivering the celestial specimen to scientists. The final descent and landing, shown on a NASA livestream, capped a six-year joint mission between the US space agency and the University of Arizona.

It might have been a scene from a science fiction movie. Helicopters converging on an object fallen from outer space into a stark, desert landscape. People in

NASA announced that the capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is now safe and secure.