Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
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‘Chemical time capsule’: Asteroid Bennu’s salts tell tale of early solar systemDiscover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...
NASA has stated that it is working 'expeditiously' with SpaceX to bring astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore from the ...
The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.
NASA’s Bennu asteroid sample provides fresh insights into the potential for life beyond Earth, revealing key organic compounds and minerals.
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samplesThe meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.
Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...
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