Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such space rocks may have seeded early Earth with the raw ingredients that fostered the emergence of living organisms.
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...
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‘Chemical time capsule’: Asteroid Bennu’s salts tell tale of early solar systemDiscover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
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