Piece of Asteroid Heading for Earth in a Spacecraft, Because They Do That Now

You know you’re living through some exciting times when you get news of a piece of an asteroid heading your way, not as it usually does, hurtling uncontrollably through space, but by hitching a ride inside a spacecraft. If you have been watching what’s going on in space these days, then you are aware that somewhere out there, humanity has a small spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource...