Osiris-Rex: Nasa confirms return of asteroid Bennu samples - BBC News

A capsule carrying debris from asteroid Bennu lands safely in the Utah desert.

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Dusty samples from the "most dangerous known rock in the Solar System" have been brought to Earth.

The American space agency Nasa landed the materials in a capsule that came down in the West Desert of Utah state.

The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft.