A gift from space: UArizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission delivers largest-ever asteroid sample to Earth

three people approaching a tire-sized capsule in the middle of a desert landscape
Sunday, September 24, 2023

The delivery from the asteroid Bennu, seven years after the spacecraft launched, marks the end of the space-voyaging phase of the mission. Scientists will now study the rocks and dust to better understand the origins of life on Earth.

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