"NASA Successfully Unlocks Canister and Reveals Bennu Asteroid Sample"

NASA has successfully disassembled the canister containing rocks collected from the asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, marking the first time a NASA mission has grabbed a chunk of a space rock. The sample, containing some of the earliest precursors to life, was taken to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where scientists overcame challenges to open the capsule and reveal roughly 4.5 billion-year-old rocks from the earliest years of the solar system, with hopes of finding biological precursors inside.