Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...
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This well-known 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid may have formed in deep-space ice, not water
Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain amino acids that may have formed in icy, radiation-filled environments rather ...
Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...
Enter the heads-up and off-world reality of the nonprofit B612 Foundation, which takes its name from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ...
If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be ...
The discovery that amino acids can form in more ways than we thought is another boost to the search for life beyond Earth. If ...
We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...
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