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A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.

After months struggling to open NASA's asteroid sample canister ... flight when it dropped the sample from 63,000 miles above Earth onto a patch of isolated Utah desert on Sept.

A space capsule from NASA’s Osiris-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu landed in Utah on Sunday. The sample of rocks and dust—the largest ever collected from an asteroid—could help scientists ...

Launched in September 2016, the spacecraft flew to its target, the asteroid Bennu ... head. This sample capsule was sent off to Earth, landing in the desert in Utah in September 2023.

A sample from ... into the Utah desert, a small quantity of the material was unveiled by Nasa at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "This is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever returned ...

Material from an asteroid will "come screaming into ... Earth's atmosphere before drifting to the ground in the Utah desert by parachute. The sample "promises to inform the most profound of ...

A movie captured by Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft shows the moment it touched down on an asteroid. The probe was attempting to grab a sample of rock from the 1km-wide body known as Ryugu ...

And scientists finally got their hands on a perfectly-preserved asteroid sample. Space exploration ... private craft to soft-land on the moon. The landing marked the US's first return to the ...

which landed on the Moon using a precise landing technique in March 2024. Investigating an asteroid with Tianwen-2 China’s Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet ...