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I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

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A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests could have quickly formed in the presence of compounds called borates. When ...

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Meteorite ALH84001 drove scientific interest in 1996 when researchers announced the presence of bacteria fossils. In years since, those claims have been largely debunked. When NASA scientists opened ...