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# Unlocking Asteroid Secrets
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/behind-wings/episode/unlocking-asteroid-secrets-nbaexr/
- Published: 2025-11-04T17:32:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-29T19:39:19.000Z
- Description: Explore how NASA's OSIRIS-Rex may change our understanding of our place in the universe.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Behind The Wings, Season 7, Episode 4, #ZZZ_Episode_3af6b830-bb05-403e-bb1c-1dcba6e98259, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_74608623-e03d-463d-914b-34ead001e618, #geo-us, #v1.16

What can a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid tell us about life on Earth? NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission set out to answer that question, traveling over 4 billion miles to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu. Explore how the spacecraft was designed to meet its ambitious science goals, and how its discoveries may change our understanding of life's origins and our place in the universe.