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A few ounces of rock and dust retrieved from the distant asteroid Bennu show evidence of the building blocks of life.

It arrived there in 2018 and spent two years mapping the asteroid’s surface until it was finally time to land. It grabbed a sample of dust and rocks from Bennu’s surface in 2020.

Space & Spaceflight Bennu Asteroid Samples Expected to ‘Fundamentally’ Shift Our Perspective on Cosmic Life If NASA ever manages to pry open the sample canister, that is.

Space & Spaceflight Pieces of Asteroid Bennu Land at the Smithsonian After 200 Million Mile Voyage The museum will unveil the first public display of the OSIRIS-REx mission samples on November 3.

In 2018, OSIRIS-REx reached Bennu’s orbit. But the problem wasn’t so much reaching Bennu as it was landing atop an asteroid that scientists believed held the early solar system’s secrets.

Experts say the rocks and dust the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft plucked from an asteroid named Bennu will fuel scientific research for generations.

NASA has called the OSIRIS-Rex landing a historic success, the first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth.