Bennu

Bennu has dominated headlines for the last couple of years thanks to the ongoing OSIRIS-REx mission. That ongoing seven-year mission has seen a spacecraft orbit Bennu, extract samples from it, and begin its journey back to Earth. Should the mission be completed successfully, it’ll be the largest amount of extraterrestrial material brought to Earth since the Apollo missions, and the samples are sure to reveal new clues to the history of the solar system, if not the origin of life.