Live: NASA'S OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft departs from asteroid Bennu.
After more than two years circling a lumpy space rock called Bennu, it's finally time for NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to head back to Earth with a full load of precious cargo: pieces of an asteroid.
OSIRIS-REx (known formally as Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) collected asteroid samples from Bennu in October. Now it's time to bring those samples home to laboratories on Earth for scientists to study to understand how asteroids, and our solar system, formed.
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Stunning new NASA footage shows probe landing on ‘doomsday asteroid’ Bennu to bring home alien sample
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