New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early solar system
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples
In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...
Did life originate in Bennu asteroid? What scientists say
A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...
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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
Astronomers find asteroid with 1% chance of hitting Earth: Should we be worried?
YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...
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The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt ... mission to an asteroid A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock's surface, and scooped ...
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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples
These needles — roughly 10 times thinner than a human hair — are water-bearing sodium carbonates (or soda ash) found in the samples of asteroid Bennu ... meaning their shape can take one ...