A Nasa probe sent to collect rock from an asteroid several hundred million kilometres from Earth has grabbed so much that samples are spilling out.
Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier this week,
"A substantial fraction of the required collected mass is seen escaping,"
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