The asteroid sample collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just experienced its second touchdown in only two days. The sample — a stash of dirt and gravel that the probe snagged from the asteroid Bennu in October...
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Hayabusa2 is a successor to Japan’s original Hayabusa craft, which returned with the first-ever samples from an asteroid back in 2010. Japan’s second asteroid sample-return mission was launched on 3 December...