Soil samples taken from the surface of an asteroid parachuted down to Earth from deep space Sunday, landing in the Utah desert to cap off a seven-year journey.

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 desert, delivering ...

NASA on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft — a jumble of black dust and rubble that’s the most ever returned to Earth.

After about two decades of planning and seven years of out-and-back space travel, NASA plans to land a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in Utah's northwestern desert this fall. The sample ...

FILE - This undated image provided by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu seen from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. On Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will fly by Earth and drop off what is ...

The capsule containing pieces from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, separated from OSIRIS-REx, parachuted into Utah's West Desert on Sunday morning.

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

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

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 sample ...

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 (Sep 24) and parachuted into the Utah desert ...