Dusty samples from the “most dangerous known rock in the Solar System” have been brought to Earth.
The American space agency NASA landed the materials in a capsule that came down in the West Desert of Utah state.
The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft.
NASA wants to learn more about the mountainous object, not least because it has an outside chance of hitting the planet in the next 300 years.
