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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
Asteroid Bennu Holds Traces of Ancient Water – And Maybe Life’s Origins
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
The Daily Wildcat9d
The creation of life: Asteroid Bennu samples bring new insight into the age-old question
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...
SETI Institute6d
Amino Acids on Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Clues to Life’s Origins
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
New Scientist16d
The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...
NASA’s Lucy Mission Gears Up to Meet a 150-Million-Year-Old Space Relic
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
Discover Magazine on MSN3d
Asteroid Mining Gives Companies Hope in the Search for Rare Metals
Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...
Mirage News10d
NASA's Lucy Targets Next Asteroid Age with New Model
Although NASA's Lucy spacecraft's upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for ...
NewsBytes5d
NASA's Lucy spacecraft to visit 150M-year-old asteroid next month
NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...