The Osiris-Rex spacecraft landed in the Utah desert on Sunday morning, capping off a seven-year mission. NASA/AFP via Getty Images. The capsule flew through Earth’s atmosphere at 10:42 a.m. EST.

Item 1 of 4 The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the ...

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 ...

On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth and dropped a sample of asteroid Bennu to Utah's West Desert. The mission went "absolutely perfectly," and NASA scientists hope the sample will ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

NASA spacecraft delivering biggest sample yet from an asteroid, landing in Utah desert. by MARCIA DUNN, AP ... This undated image provided by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu seen from the OSIRIS-REx ...

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