Scientists are exulting over the safe arrival of a canister containing about a cup's worth of asteroid rocks, collected 200 million miles away, that landed in a Utah desert after a 7-year NASA ...

Sept 24 (Reuters) - A NASA capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever collected from an asteroid is due to return to Earth on Sunday, expected to streak through the atmosphere and parachute ...

Researchers consider Bennu to be a potentially dangerous asteroid, as it appears to have ... As it falls towards the high mountain desert of the Utah Test and Training Range, it will deploy ...

[Read more: Utah right place to land the Bennu asteroid sample, NASA OSIRIS-REx leaders say] After mapping the asteroid using technology developed and built by Space Dynamics Laboratory ...

Sept 24 (Reuters) - A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid streaked through Earth's atmosphere on Sunday and parachuted into the Utah ...

An asteroid sample collected by NASA has touched ... The sample landed in the Defense Department’s Utah Test and Training Range about 10 minutes after entering the atmosphere, a few minutes ...

SALT LAKE CITY — After examining just 0.06% of a 120-gram material sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu — which returned to Earth in Utah's west desert in September 2023 — a group of ...

The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid. Scientists anticipate getting about a half ...

Learn more. 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 ...

The asteroid sample is expected to land in Utah on September 24, 2023. More JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images "Scientists believe that the asteroid Bennu is representative of the solar system's ...