YhMjC4WQbQk nasa-just-opened-the-largest-asteroid-sample NASA Just Opened The Largest Asteroid Sample NASA opened the space capsule containing the largest asteroid sample ever collected by a space mission. WCMX3Ze2EbU osiris-rex-what-tests-will-nasa-do-on-the-asteroid-sample OSIRIS-REx | What Tests on the Asteroid Sample? The OSIRIS-REx probe has finished it's 7 billion km journey to the asteroid Bennu and back but safely delivering a sample of the asteroid back to Earth. But what now? What tests are NASA planning to run on the sample? And what are we hoping to learn from it? 42EwbQ3afPA asteroid-bennus-surprising-surface-revealed-by-nasa-spacecraft Asteroid Bennu’s Surface Revealed by NASA Spacecraft Near-Earth asteroid Bennu is a rubble pile of rocks and boulders left over from the formation of the solar system. On October 20, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touched down on Bennu and collected a sample for return to Earth. 3vijOMIbu0w cosmic-vistas-the-mystery-of-our-solar-systems-asteroid-belts Cosmic Vistas | Mystery of Our Solar System's Asteroid Belts Scientist long thought that our solar system consisted of the sun, the planets, and their moons. We soon found that we are far from alone, often coming into contact with asteroids, comets, and other debris. EZSCtgfmEO0 nasas-plan-to-save-earth-from-a-giant-asteroid NASA's Plan to Save Earth from a Giant Asteroid 65 million years ago, a large asteroid collided with Earth near present-day Chicxulub, Mexico. The impact was a climactic event that likely contributed to dinosaur extinction.