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 ...
NASA finds building blocks for life in the Bennu asteroid sample
Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ...
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Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples
Tim McCoy, the paper’s lead author and the curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum ... including Bennu. The first compound the team discovered in the Bennu sample was ...
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Analysis of OSIRIS-REx Sample Shows Asteroid Bennu Has Ingredients for Life
Credit: NASA "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial sample," said Tim McCoy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural ...
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 Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
On September 24, 2023, a 4.3-ounce Bennu sample—perfectly preserved within OSIRIS-REx ... another team—led by meteorite ...
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
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Asteroid Bennu contains the stuff of life, sample analysis reveals
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
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Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
The sample was collected from Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx, or Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer. It marked the ...
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An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
On September 24, 2023, a 4.3-ounce Bennu sample—perfectly preserved within ... and cosmic mineralogists at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the Natural History Museum ...