After a seven-year trip, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample capsule containing rocks captured from the asteroid Bennu, and now NASA has shared the first results of its tests on the samples.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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The Bennu asteroid samples onboard OSIRIS-REx are about to face the bumpiest part of their journey back from deep space.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert.

OSIRIS-REx flies by Earth after releasing its Bennu sample return capsule and on to its next mission — chasing down Apophis — in this artist's rendering.

Information gathered by OSIRIS-REx may help in development of future technologies to deflect asteroids that threaten to collide with Earth.

NASA revealed Wednesday the contents of the OSIRIS-REx capsule containing the first asteroid sample collected in space.

Dante Lauretta, the chief scientist of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, talks about unexpected challenges of NASA's first asteroid sampling attempt in an exclusive interview.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a sample of one asteroid — and is now heading for another one.

The OSIRIS-REx probe is carrying rock samples from the asteroid Bennu, millions of miles away. If it works, it will be only the third such retrieval in history.