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Are humans the aliens? NASA finds all of life's key ingredients in asteroid Bennu sample
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
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Big revelation: Life’s ingredients found in NASA’s asteroid Bennu sample
Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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, ...