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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
How life's building blocks took shape on early Earth: The limits of membraneless polyester protocell formation
One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...
Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust
This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
An asteroid has a very small chance to hit Earth. What happens if it does?
Scientists say they expect the asteroid's future trajectory and impact probability to change as astronomers collect and ...
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Earth's missing elements were lost in violent collisions during formation
New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary ...
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Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth’s missing elements
Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.
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How life's building blocks took shape on early Earth: The limits of membraneless polyester protocell formation
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Polyester microdroplets, formed from alpha-hydroxy acids (αHAs), are promising candidates for protocells, potentially widespread on early Earth. These ...