New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early Solar System
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Dust from asteroid Bennu suggests solar system's potential for life was widespread
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
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NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
NASA’s findings from asteroid Bennu suggest solar system could be ‘teeming with the potential for life’
The rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu hold amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth, NASA reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the conditions necessary for ...
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How did life's building blocks end up on dwarf planet Ceres?
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.
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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid Bennu
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
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That American kids are taking too many central nervous system drugs, both for ADHD and mental illnesses. Sheryl Gay Stolberg Senator Elizabeth Warren gets Kennedy to say he will not take money ...