NASA Brought an Asteroid Sample Back to Earth



A NASA spacecraft just returned to earth with part of an asteroid inside it! Back in 2016, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team sent a robotic spacecraft to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu, which was chosen because it’s over 4.5 billion years old, carbon-rich, and might contain the biochemical building blocks for life. Here’s how they captured a piece of the asteroid and why it matters…

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