Scientists are holding a news conference to show off material brought back to Earth by the Osiris-Rex mission.
Welcome to our live stream from Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where we're about to learn more about the space rock grabbed from asteroid Bennu and brought back to earth. You might remember last month a capsule containing material gathered from the asteroid was returned to Earth , landing in a remote part of the Utah desert in the western US.
Since then scientists have been carefully removing the material from the capsule and today we should learn more about what was inside. Once it's all accounted for the space dust will be examined - in part because there is an outside chance of Bennu hitting our planet in the next 300 years, but also because the samples are likely to provide fresh insights into the formation of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago and possibly even how life got started on our world.
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