A NASA spacecraft landed a sample capsule from asteroid Bennu in a U.S. desert on Sunday after a seven-year, 6-billion-kilometer journey, marking the world's third asteroid sample retrieval following Japan's Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 missions.The capsule, weighing 50 kilograms and measuring about 80 centimeters in diameter, carried rock samples that may hold clues to the early days of the solar system. It was released from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said curation scientist…READ FULL ARTICLE
