KIHEI, Hawaii — A capsule from a NASA spacecraft landed in the Utah desert Sept. 24, completing a seven-year mission to return samples from a near Earth asteroid. The sample return capsule from the ...

A canister containing material collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu is placed inside a sample return capsule on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Univ. of Arizona/Lockheed ...

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The OSIRIS-REx mission achieved a significant milestone as its asteroid sample return capsule safely touched down on Earth. With the capsule now in the hands of NASA's Johnson Space Center, the ...

A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted ...

They landed in Australia on Dec. 5. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Japanese scientists are thrilled to finally have asteroid ...

IT WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT THE HELP OF A LANCASTER COUNTY COMPANY. RUSH TOWNSHIP. IT WAS A JOURNEY A DECADE IN THE MAKING. NASA’S OSIRIS REX CAPSULE LANDED SAFELY IN THE UTAH DESERT, CARRYING A ...

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OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:55 a.m. EDT (1455 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A capsule containing a specimen from an ancient asteroid is set to land on Earth on Sept. 24 from the first U.S. spacecraft to embark on such a mission. The sample could contain important data about ...