Ancient black dust and chunks are from asteroid named Bennu, almost 60m miles away and collected three years ago
Nasa on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft – the most ever returned to Earth.
Scientists and space agency leaders took part in the reveal at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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