NASA spacecraft collected 250-gram sample from asteroid Bennu

A NASA spacecraft that has traveled to asteroid Bennu collected a sample of around 250 grams for delivery to Earth next year, well over its minimum goal of 60 grams, according to a study published Thursday by the U.S. magazine Science.NASA plans to hand over a portion of the sample collected by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to Japan's space agency, which previously shared with the U.S. agency some of the material retrieved from asteroid Ryugu by its Hayabusa2 explorer that returned to Earth in December 2020.Asteroids are believed to be remnants from the early formation of the solar system about…READ FULL ARTICLE