Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...
NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...
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Radioactive space can host building blocks of life, asteroid Bennu samples reveal
A new study offers a look at how the building blocks of life might ...
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu ...
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
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Proteins before planets: How space ice may have created the 1st building blocks of life
"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...
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This Rock Found in the Desert Contains Matter Older Than the Sun, and It’s Not from Earth
A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains ...
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Experiment shows complex molecules can form on space dust — offering new clues to the origins of life
The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.
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