NASA reveals first sample from 4.5 billion-year-old Bennu space object

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The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the US will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA is set to reveal the contents of a cannister returned from a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid - which could hold clues to the origins of life. The largest ever sample taken from beyond the moon could aid an asteroid-deflection effort in the unlikely event one is heading for earth.

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