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A precious handful of dirt
On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...
Science Friday2d
Building Blocks Of Life Found On Asteroid Bennu
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
The Debrief3d
Could a Bennu-Sized Asteroid Wipe Out Humanity? New Study Reveals Shocking Aftermath of Impact
In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...
Physics World4d
Asteroid Bennu contains the stuff of life, sample analysis reveals
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
The Weather Network6d
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 ...