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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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NASA's returned asteroid samples reveal building blocks for life
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...
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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
De la Fuente Marcos’ paper in September suggested that the object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is made of small asteroids that have orbits around the sun similar to Earth’s orbit.
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Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space
but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid belt, according to Musk at the time. When the roadster was mistaken for an asteroid earlier this month, it was less than ...
‘Building blocks of life’ found on alien asteroid, scientists say
The building blocks of life have been found on an alien asteroid, scientists have said. Samples taken by Nasa from the ...