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Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...