NASA successfully completed the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid as they recovered the OSIRIS-REx sample capsule that landed Sunday at the Utah Test and Training Range.

NASA’s first spacecraft to collect a sample from an asteroid will complete its 7-year mission later this year when OSIRIS-REx drops off some of asteroid Bennu in Utah.

The material was first collected in space nearly three years ago from Bennu, an asteroid scientists discovered in 1999.

A NASA space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled toward Earth this weekend headed for a fiery plunge through the atmosphere ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have long studied how life on Earth began, but a NASA mission to capture a sample of an asteroid may unlock some answers — and Dugway Proving Ground will play a key role in this ...

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 Osiris-REx mission has successfully returned a pristine sample of asteroid back to Earth. This cupful-or-so of space rock could shed light on the solar system's origins.

At that location, experts will remove the capsule's aerodynamic shell—it could be caked in mud due to recent rains at the Utah landing site—and put the sample canister under a flow of nitrogen ...

Pieces of a potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu will come barreling down to Earth this weekend, landing in Utah, following a 7-year NASA spacecraft journey to collect a sample of the asteroid ...

A NASA director invited Utahns to watch the asteroid sample mission landing in the Utah desert this Sunday, and shared information about other upcoming missions Thursday.