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NASA finds building blocks for life in Bennu asteroid sample

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Bennu Asteroid Contains Material Needed for Life, NASA Mission Finds

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter essential to life in dust and rock retrieved from an asteroid known as Bennu. The finding supports the theory that near-Earth asteroids,

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NASA brought back samples from asteroid Bennu. They revealed clues about the possible origins of life.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.

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Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Scientists studying the sample collected in 2023 from asteroid Bennu have announced a dramatic finding: they have identified the key building blocks of life within the sample.

Analysis of OSIRIS-REx Sample Shows Asteroid Bennu Has Ingredients for Life

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Asteroid Bennu came from a distant, lost world of salty ponds

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

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Asteroid Bennu contains the 'seeds of life,' OSIRIS-REx samples reveal

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

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