NASA's asteroid sample reveals key chemistry that could lead to life
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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Traces of ancient brine discovered on the asteroid Bennu contain minerals crucial to life
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...
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Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...
Asteroid Bennu has all five amino acids for genetic material
Samples from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks of life as we know it. Scientists are enthusiastic.
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Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
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Unprecedented asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals crucial to life, scientists say
co-lead author of the Nature study and curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid.
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
co-lead author of the Nature study and curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid.