Astrobiologist Hannah McLain holds the container that a portion of asteroid Bennu was shipped in to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Jan. 27, 2025. Scientists in Goddard’s astrobiology lab are studying samples of asteroid Bennu brought to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) spacecraft.