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NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
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A NASA spacecraft scooped rubble from an asteroid. Here's what was inside
An international team of scientists has released some of their discoveries about the samples collected by the NASA spacecraft Osiris-REx from the near-Earth carbon-rich asteroid Bennu in 2020 ...
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Bennu isn’t likely to hit Earth — but if it did, here’s what would happen
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.
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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
Ever since the Bennu samples returned to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, we and our colleagues on four continents have spent hundreds of hours studying them. The instruments on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...
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Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samples
The analysis of the Bennu samples is the scientific payoff for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which in 2016 launched a probe to the asteroid on a multiyear journey. The spacecraft jabbed the ...
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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Could Cause A Global Catastrophe, Scientists Say
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...
A Billion-Year-Old Secret Unlocked in Asteroid Bennu’s Dust
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
USA Today16d
Scientists find a 'next step on a pathway to life' in space
More:High resolution photos of asteroid materials revealed. How NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought Bennu sample back to Earth. The findings were reported in two journal articles on Wednesday.
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Scientists Find ‘Mirror Life’ Building Blocks on Asteroid Bennu
At its closest, the asteroid is 200 million miles from Earth. While still a multi-year journey, the distance made it possible to land a space probe, map Bennu’s landscape, collect specimens, and ...
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Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life
Asteroid Bennu, as imaged by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's camera. (NASA Goddard) Collected in October of 2020, this sample was the very first NASA ever returned from an asteroid for study by ...