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.
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
Asteroid Samples Reveal Early Earth's Building Blocks
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft retrieved samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing essential building blocks for life. These include amino acids and nucleobases present in the ancient extraterrestrial rock,
Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such space rocks may have seeded early Earth with the raw ingredients that fostered the emergence of living organisms.
Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samples
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.
NASA finds ‘key to life’ in Bennu asteroid samples
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.
NASA’s findings from asteroid Bennu suggest solar system could be ‘teeming with the potential for life’
The rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu hold amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth, NASA reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the conditions necessary for life were widespread across the early solar system and boost the odds that life could have developed elsewhere.
In NASA asteroid samples, scientists discover key building blocks of life
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building blocks of life like amino acids.
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Earliest Evidence of Lead Pollution Found From 5,200 Years Ago
Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.
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‘Chemical time capsule’: Asteroid Bennu’s salts tell tale of early solar system
In a nutshell Scientists found pristine salt minerals in asteroid Bennu samples that formed in a specific sequence as ancient ...
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Oldest Evidence of Human-Caused Lead Pollution Dates from Over 5,000 Years Ago, Around the Aegean Sea
Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.
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Early Earth Microbial Life and Organic Matter
The study of early Earth microbial life and organic matter ... Recent research has focused on various geological formations and ancient environments that may have harbored microbial communities ...
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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Amazing adaptation: Early humans thrived in extreme conditions
To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...
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Early humans adapted to harsh conditions more than a million years ago
A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.