Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say
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, these components could have seeded Earth’s initially barren landscape to produce a habitable world.
Unprecedented asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals crucial to life, scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers reveal that the samples contain precursors to life that formed in a watery environment—a watery environment very similar to the one that prevailed on Earth before life emerged up to four billion years ago.
NASA brought back samples from asteroid Bennu. They revealed clues about the possible origins of life.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.
Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid Bennu
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino acids, offering clues to how early Earth got its ingredients for life
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
A layer of ice saved them from the depths and allowed scientists a peek into the birth of the solar system. Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu,
Asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.
Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a 1.2 Percent Earth Impact Risk
A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.
Asteroid has one in 83 chance of hitting earth in 2032, astronomers say
An asteroid, called 2024 YR4, has a one in 83 chance of hitting earth within the next decade, according to astronomers.
New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early Solar System
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Asteroid the size of a 20-story building headed for Earth in 2032, astronomers warn
Asteroid the size of a 20-story building headed for Earth in 2032, astronomers warn - The 60-metre object has ‘one of the ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
Newly-discovered ‘Christmas asteroid’ could collide with Earth
An asteroid the width of a full-size football pitch could hit Earth in seven years, astronomers have warned ...
Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
Dust from asteroid Bennu suggests solar system's potential for life was widespread
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...